Only if you assume that view source was ever a good idea.
If the writer wants you to see the source, you can download it elsewere (githun, etc) if not, there is no difference between not getting the source to office 98 and not getting the source to google docs.
When the Web was young and there was no GitHub, viewing a page's source made it so that you could see by example how every page worked. It exposed you to a huge number of possibilities. The Web partially owes its success to this feature because without it far fewer people would have made it to the stage where they could produce their own pages. Every web developer/designer has used this to help them -- guaranteed.
Besides, the feature would have sprung up anyway whether the browser vendors wanted it included or not. Third parties would have stepped in. It's plain text transmitted over the wire. Unlike the source of Office 98 which is not retrievable from the Office 98 binary, a page's source is readily available to the machine that has to cobble it all together when viewing that page.
The presence of the View Source item in the context menu of all web browsers is where many people first interacted with source code. Long may it remain there.
If the writer wants you to see the source, you can download it elsewere (githun, etc) if not, there is no difference between not getting the source to office 98 and not getting the source to google docs.