As a non-native speaker, I agree. Such tools are not new and extremely helpful when writing professional documents.
I also think that we are nowhere close to actually censoring words in editors like Google Docs, MS Word, ... even though it might seem like a small change from providing suggestions to enforcing them. But when you think about it, it's a huge change, both from a technical standpoint and even more so from an ethical one.
Providing writing suggestions is certainly far from the worst thing that tech monopolies have ever done.
The problem is that once you expose any surface area for censorship decisions, some of the loudest voices point to it and apply "inaction is violence" (an appropriate concept in some contexts, I should say.) Because the Euphemism Treadmill is a real thing [1], there's always grounds to pressure companies to ban or steer people away from newly incorrect language.
I can see many asking: Why steer writers away from slurs but not "biological male"? Is everyone at Google just... unaware of what's happening right now? I find it hard to believe that there's no one there who can explain what's wrong with this term or how badly we need to raise awareness about it.
I also think that we are nowhere close to actually censoring words in editors like Google Docs, MS Word, ... even though it might seem like a small change from providing suggestions to enforcing them. But when you think about it, it's a huge change, both from a technical standpoint and even more so from an ethical one.
Providing writing suggestions is certainly far from the worst thing that tech monopolies have ever done.