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This is bad typography.

Not the fonts themselves. The very idea - one default font for Office.

You pick the right typeface for the purpose.

Word is likely to be used for longer texts, so something like Skeena would be the best choice, with perhaps Bierstadt for headings & titles.

Excel is likely to have lots of small text that you need to get exactly right, so Bierstadt or Tenorite would be more suitable, but they should consider Consolas as it's very good for numbers and its fixed width nature might help in a sea of numbers...

PowerPoint is about short, clear bits of text - so Bierstadt or Tenorite are suitable.

But this idea that there should be one typeface that's the default across all Office products is just terrible typography. It smacks of marketing taking the lead - "We must have a consistent brand across the products!" - without actually realising what buffoons they're making of themselves.

This is why we can't have nice things, and why people say Microsoft has no style.