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I apologize; you are right. Will Microsoft designers ever ask themselves, hey, so, how do normal people want to use our programs? Or will they keep changing everything constantly, coming up with unnecessarily complex ways of doing simple things that satisfy their fragile man-child egos?
That's technically two questions.
Nobody here have any insights into the decision making process at Microsoft. 🙂 Most contributors are volunteers. To suggest changes in Word, you have to post feedback. For example, go to the feedback portal at https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/fb6d67e3-301c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472.
Traditionally, word processors, such as Word, are very different from page layout software, such as Publisher. Word relies on section breaks when you want to make layout changes, while page layout software use other methods.