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Wordpad is for looking at and editing rich text, not txt files. It's not a big deal because no one uses rtf.
Wordpad is for whatever people use it for, and that is mostly looking at files in some sort of text (words on a pad). My point is if microsoft removes the ability to open a text file then the consequences are on them.
I like using it when I want to create a simple rtf document and not use a bloated Office.
as a replacement, markdown is your friend. you can learn the symbols or (harder option) find a markdown wyswyg editor program.
Or, and hear me out on this, you create an unholy mixture of MD/HTML/Latex documents in a plaintext editor and then you use the Pandoc CLI to make it into a PDF/DOCX/website/whatever.
Wordpad can also open most Word files. Even though I have Office, I open word files in wordpad all the time, because it's so much faster to open. When I just need one small piece of info, that I am going to copy and paste, it saves me time.
Word is not included with Windows apprently so Wordpad is useful at work when I don't have time to install LibreOffice.