Have you read the article at all?

Unlike you I actually did.

This was no “we evaluated, it did not work”.

there were reports late last year that the officials were running into formatting issues such as blank pages when opening Office documents in Collabora and vice versa.

It was “we don’t like this. Hey, Bob, please tell us how it doesn’t work” - “Sure, I had this one document which rendered wrongly” - “see, it doesn’t work, now we can scratch the project”.

Vivid imagination. Nothing of that kind is in the article but you seem to have made up your mind.