If that is the case, part of the problem is the article's author was comparing a potentially complex example of numbering in Word with a trivial example of numb

If that is the case, part of the problem is the article's author was comparing a potentially complex example of numbering in Word with a trivial example of numbering in LaTeX. That trivial case in LaTeX led me to question the whole premise of the article since the example seemed to be cherry picking end users who didn't know how to use Word, or at least a case where the person who setup the document didn't know how to use Word and the editors did not have the authority to fix the issue properly.