I was a little kid so I didn't know any better, as far as the word processor and spreadsheet not being very good. Neither the C64 nor Plus/4 had an 80-column text mode, unlike an Apple IIe with 80-column card or IIc/IIGS. The C128 added 80-column text with a new proprietary CGA knockoff chip that didn't have the sprites of the C64 VIC-II and didn't address the same RAM as the CPU.
The C128 had a near-perfect C64 mode, but then they bolted on a few features for C128 mode that weren't integrated.
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