Intersting - I used to feel that way about Times New Roman too, but gradually grown to like it for its compatcness.

I tyically use LateX fonts for formal documents:

https://medium.com/@parttimeben/how-to-make-word-documents-l...

For less formal documents, I tent to use Helvetica/Inter/Calisto MT/Constantia and a bunch of others that I collected over the years.