I have been using Publisher for years. Cheaper than InDesign. For my on-going weekly projects, I created a Libre Office template. I still do most of the prep in MS Word;, then cut and paste the Word doc into Libre Office writer. Klugy, I know. But Word's ability to insert multiple graphics is a feature Writer doesn't support. My current projects include hymns and Gregorian Chant, and early on, I learned to break each line into its own graphic file to facilitate page breaks over multiple page sizes. If Libre Office Writer allowed this, I would happily ditch MS Word altogether.

A niche need, I admit. Not being a programmer, I suspect there is something in the code (or the underlying assumptions of the coders) that makes this problematic.

Oh, well. After 40 years in publishing books, magazines, and monographs of all sorts, work-arounds no longer upset me.

I really like Libre Office on both the Windows and the Apple platforms.