What about a menu (ribbon) item called "apply very nice typography to your document" which recalculates/reformats the paragraphs? Would this be a solution?
I don’t actually use a WYSIWYG editor any more, so I’ll leave my speculation there.
Which is: Interpret your instructions very literally, so you still need to go over your document carefully to fix problems like urls running off the edge of the page?
Smart-arse joke aside, I agree with you that LaTeX is generally great, but it's not perfect, and sometimes it is difficult to make it do what you want.