Comment 41 for bug 1990673

(In reply to David Melik from comment #38)
> not everyone is necessarily even writing a paragraph rather
> than writing as a text editor just with nice formatting

Right now Text Body style is the same as Default Paragraph Style, except it has some spacing below the paragraph. Even if Writer was predominantly used as a fancy plain text editor, this formatting is not a problem.

However, if the LibreOffice community decides that for a new document there should be as little formatting decisions made for them as possible, there still should be another dummy style to avoid the inheritance gotcha (see comment #22).

In any case, even after 10 years, I still think that for a new document, the first paragraph should have "Text Body" style. Clarc has given more than enough reasons to make the change.