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The author admits that "there are some sorts of documents for which a WYSIWYG word processor is indeed the natural tool. I'm thinking of short, ad hoc, documents which have a high ratio of formatting ``business'' to textual content: flyers, posters, party invitations and the like".

I think that those ad-hoc, one-page documents represent a majority of documents created by users - even if you count the pages, not the complete documents.

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You ignore the qualifier at the end "high ratio of formatting ``business'' to textual content". With that in mind i certainly do not think your assertion is right. The average business memo has - or should have - very little formatting.

"business" in this context seems to mean 'activity' rather than 'for the purposes of commerce'.

I realize that. I used a business memo as an example of a mainstream document type, not as a ref to "business".

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