I guess this is what I get for growing up with HTML. HTML has its shortcomings too, but is less inclined to drive me nuts when I want to write a structured document.
Current gripe...
This document has numbered sections. Makes a pretty TOC. But this numbering happens with the Bullets & Numbering tool. Now I come along and want to create an ordered list in one section. That is, nest a simple list (1, 2, 3, etc.) under the "whole-of-document outline list" without it either continuing numbering or restarting numbering. And I can't figure out a way to do it. So, I have to resort to bullets, even though an ordered list would be clearer and semantically better than an unordered list. Sigh.