If you don't like it, change it. Keyboard shortcuts can be (re)defined, on a per-app basis or universally, in the Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard preferences. I

If you don't like it, change it. Keyboard shortcuts can be (re)defined, on a per-app basis or universally, in the Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard preferences. I could never remember the various screen shot shortcuts, so for me it's command-escape for the clipboard and option-escape for straight to a file. It took me less than a minute to change Pages so command-v pastes matching style, and command-option-v pastes with the original style. Even better, Pages's menus display the new shortcuts. The latest Pages doesn't really seem to have paragraph styles vs. character styles, so it might be more difficult to pull that off, but Automator is very clever, and AppleScript moreso, so I'm betting it's possible.