ODT files are used by open source software Libre Office who inherited from both Open Office and Neo Office. It's used by Microsoft users, Apple Users and Linux users. Since it's open source software, it's 100% free. It allows for the same sort of features that Microsoft does as much as Google Docs does similarly.

Google currently does support ODT files. (see Screenshot) Shouldn't Adobe follow suit and do the same? Every other program does, so why not Adobe?

InDesign needs to support ODT files for the following reasons:
1. LIbre Office is Free.

1. Adobe costs a lot of money per year and not everyone gets Word or Microsoft office for free. There are Apple users which would make the majority of the population, I would htink considering macs are more stabele for Photoshop, etc. There are also Linux users who would have to purchase Microsoft Word.

2. Adobe supports other open source extensions on the rest of its software so the excuse that "It just is too hard" doesn't look like a good excuse.

3. It would widen the range of users who could use InDesign as there is no ceiling. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/16frwx8/15_million_downloads_of_libreoffice_76_two_weeks/
   There is are according to that website 1.5 million downloads of only version 1. Consider how much that has spread since.

There is an argument about this a few years back as well on the forums.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/add-import-odt-file-support/td-p/8940485

The listed reason doesn't seem cogent from what I know of software engineering and considering Adobe does support open source in other products.

Unless you're getting 1 trillion dollars from Microsoft to not do it, it doesn't seem like a feasible business plan to block the path of ODT files and their importation if it would lead to a wider user base being able to access adobe products. Why make people pay for 2 programs? Why don't you want people to spend that sweet cash on Adobe and InDesign instead?

With the boom in the self publishing industry, I think making the ceiling lower and more accessible to Adobe products would be in your best interest over insisting that people use Word. Give Microsoft the competition they should have in the first place and make it a fair, non-collusion market. Shouldn't Adobe want a wider user base?