Thank you @tobyp. Your response covers the issues really well.
@SquareBottle I certainly wasn’t trying to be dismissive - I was just literally answering the help question. Obsidian is very much in beta. We are all stumbling through these issues together, and the forum is the place to bring attention to them - make a feature request, make your case, describe how you would want this to work in Obsidian, use examples from other apps - that’s how you get taken seriously, by being an active participant in the community.
I’m not sure how to respond to this because it’s just the reality of using Obsidian right now. In fact, it’s by design that since it’s just editing plain text markdown files, you can take advantage of features from other editors, apps, and automation scripts without having to worry about lock-in and proprietary data formats.
For reference, here’s the main WYSIWYG feature request: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/a-wysiwym-typora-like-editing-mode/1953