@cstross @Talia Back when I had the authority, I told the people I worked with to stop using track changes.
I noticed someone turning it off briefly in an attempt to get changes past me without my noticing them.
I had also found a tool that made it easy to compare documents.
From then on, I just did a comparison of the new and the old and understood the changes that way. I still do this, but I "accept" all the changes first and then run the comparison tool.