I'm angry that I guessed right. I really don't like how flat the model for text generally is. I don't see text as a [Char], so if the computer does there's a hidden mismatch that people have grown to work around and with (just like searching on the Internet before 2005 felt. You had to know what was gonna work and then got the right to claim how easy it was)

We structure text in an implicit hierarchy given by spacing, margins and a bunch of other subtle things that [Char] doesn't capture, but can encode for other humans. I think that this is were all the problems stem from, and that with right (tm) structure a lot of the operations can be merged trivially with way fewer surprises. Easier said that done for sure, and there will be more weird cases, but I'm guessing they will get closer to being just the conflicts that really need authors to deal with.