Metadata fields can be inserted into a document to give an info about the state
of the document: Creation date, Author, Last printed... Info which shouldn't be
changed.

One could think about an exception for Title. But it brings so few user
experience improvement that it's not worth implementing it.

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Both title and author are something that's very common to edit

In a context where OO.o is the only suite deployed making them hard to use only
means users will replace them with custom fields (wreaking havoc in metadata
indexing)

In a context where Microsoft Office is available as reference point you get OO.o
user rejection

Certainly special-casing those seems a lot of work, but they're the most
important metadata in writer files, so you can't ignore them that easily

Reassigned to Requirements