I agree with you John.

Normally if you are going to write a book or such things, then spending the time up front to develope your basic requirements for that project can be critical. If a person has the knowledge, they would create a template which would control font styles, headers & footers, bullet points etc etc.

Once it has been tested, you can the save it as a template and use that template for future projects that fit.

Most people tend to type their project and make the changes on the fly, which can and does create issues.