The official stance currently that they don't really need a full suite themselves, nor do they want to ship an office suite that isn't theirs. Until then, there are several third party options (see below). For my personal opinions, taking the near-ubiquitous Microsoft Office as an example, it comes with:
The writing application is probably the most conventional piece of software, and yet surprisingly rarely used. Simple documents are written occasionally, but not regularly enough that it was a major issue this cycle, although it has been looked at by the community (see below), the issue of compatibility (which permeates this question) will no doubt rear its ugly head.
Spreadsheets are commonly used in the workplace, but far less at home (unless you log every transaction you make, like some kind of weirdo), and elementary is definitely not targeted at the business market right now. Definitely not a priority.
I'm not entirely sure what OneNote does, but it isn't used on any of the hundreds of machines I administer. It seems to be searchable sticky notes, and it's been opened 3 times by people so far this year, 2 were auto-launching at startup, and one was because they were curious what it did.
Access is a format for what is effectively a proprietary version of SQLite, a is a system often employed for quick-and-easy databases that rapidly move into multi-user territory that it is simply not designed for. A poorly defined piece of technology is worse that a buggy piece of technology, and most users will have no user for this. Microsoft do not even include this in most Microsoft Office versions.
Google provide a wide array of tools for working with documents, spreadsheets, and slideshows and support converting to and from Microsoft Office format, and is now being recommended by some universities. A major upside is you don't need to install or even save things, it's all just online.
LibreOffice has come to be the de-facto option for open-source office tools, and for very good reason. If you want offline software, with the option of theming it's way into elementary, this is the one for you.
There is a great mockup for a Writer on Deviantart by spiceofdesign that is absolutely gorgeous, and did have some code written as a third-party application, but was never official. There's been nothing done there for a couple of months, but it seems to have a significant amount of the groundwork laid.
None of the office suites out there - and certainly not Libre Office - do that, so it only makes sense not to include any office application by default and let the users free to install the one that best suits their needs.
I have really tried to use LibreOffice any number of times ever since I first heard about it. At first, I thought it was pretty good. However, the more formatting features I try to use, the more functional differences I find between LiberOffice and EVERY other office suite I have ever used. LibreWriter document formatting is COMPLETELY counter-intuitive and drives me crazy every time it mangles one of my documents. Bullet points are completely useless and I have to use them a lot in my technical documents. So, the question remains. Who decided that LibreOffice had to be different just for the sake of being different???
Perhaps LibreOffice is so different from other office suites because it has a very distinctive concept to support users in formatting as much as possible. LibreOffice is prepared for all kinds of documents, from simple letters to complex technical descriptions and books.
To be honest, it takes a little more time to get used to and prepare Formatting Styles. In return, however, you can concentrate fully on your project afterwards and assign the Format Styles, such as headings, Paragraph and Character Styles, etc. in no time at all.
Familiarise yourself with the documentation of LibreOffice, as @EarnestAl has offered you.
If you are interested in switching to LibreOffice, also read here:
My Transition from MS-Office to LibreOffice
Professional text composition with Writer
Back in the 1990s I bought quite a few books to help me understand how to get the best out of MS Office, Lotus Smartsuite and other programs.
Happily, the manuals for LO are freely available and sites like this exist to help people with specific issues
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