>, but unfortunately smells like the usual sour grapes of somebody who refuses to learn new tools.
To be more charitable, I'd say it's just an issue of the MS Word's mental model not being taught explicity. If you read typical training guides for MS Word, it describes the use of "styles and templates" as "best practices" or "saving time". Instead, the tutorial books should use much stronger language: "You must master styles and templates or you will be perplexed as to why MS Word doesn't do what you want it to do."
In defense of the WordPerfect "stream" paradigm, it is more intuitive because you don't have that extra layer of complexity with "styles". As evidence, we see the pendulum swinging back to "simple markdown" that lets people just insert things like bullet points at the exact spot they need it. With MS Word or CSS, you'd (ideally) define a paragraph style or a CSS rule.
The 2 paradigms of markdown (streams) vs CSS (styles) will coexist together.
To be more charitable, I'd say it's just an issue of the MS Word's mental model not being taught explicity. If you read typical training guides for MS Word, it describes the use of "styles and templates" as "best practices" or "saving time". Instead, the tutorial books should use much stronger language: "You must master styles and templates or you will be perplexed as to why MS Word doesn't do what you want it to do."
In defense of the WordPerfect "stream" paradigm, it is more intuitive because you don't have that extra layer of complexity with "styles". As evidence, we see the pendulum swinging back to "simple markdown" that lets people just insert things like bullet points at the exact spot they need it. With MS Word or CSS, you'd (ideally) define a paragraph style or a CSS rule.
The 2 paradigms of markdown (streams) vs CSS (styles) will coexist together.