I could have written this comment myself. Let's add the positioning of figures, and these are the most problematic points of OO.org.
Maybe all of this is (partly) due to the necessity of maintaining MS Word compatibility, which I understand is important (and not here still: highlighting in different colors with OO.org 3.1.1 are impossible to undo in word...).
I too use LaTeX for anything important, but the problem is that this way is very difficult to cooperate... almost no one use LaTeX in my university, even among researcher (and no one in the administrative side).