[gnatolf]

It does take some getting used to, I'll give you that. But it's very predictable.

Annoyingly, 'new' users, especially led by KOMAScript hints are drawn to use the 'total' positioning that is promised by using the H B P and other options. However, since these aren't holding their promises - at least not the misunderstood promised 'absolute' positioning, frustration is very often creeping in.

I've had too many co authors and friends ask me how to push figures to certain positions where all I saw was premature optimization in terms of positions and tons of wasted cycles (CPU and user) to get to intermediate solutions that are completely unnecessary if only they were saved until the last layouting runs. The change in document creation paradigm (to not care about the layout until the far end) is what 'manages' expectations and where the perceived errors mostly come from.