His comparison though, and the similarity to how WordPerfect managed things, is precisely why I switched to LyX as well. It's not perfect, but it's a huge step better at getting out of my way and just letting me tell the computer what I want to do, and letting it figure it out from there. I get to "just write," and in the end I still get something that honestly looks more professional than the things I did in Word and LibreOffice, with a fraction of the work and far less fighting the model.