What a dumbass; anyone who lived through PC revolution (e.g. typed papers in college and then met PCs later) is somewhat conversant with the basics of fonts and the difficulties associated with producing clean doc's off a typewriter. This fiasco is a perfect storm. Probably a young whippersnapper (who never used a typewriter) produced it and an old fogey (who never really used a PC) approved it. Neither knew how obvious it would be to someone who really lived through the WYSIWYG transition.
You've got that right. Typewriters were a major pain in the @$$. And even the advent of the PC didn't make it easy in the earlier days.
Anyone remember Wordstar and the imbedded dot formatting commands? Not quite WYSIWYG but still produced proportion spaced, multi font and font size documents. You just had to waste a few pages of paper to check your formatting.