Formatting a Confluence page

Hello and first of all thanks for a great product!

We try to use Confluence for all our documentation and process needs, but there is a couple of things that causes quite a lot of frustration for us.

Why is formatting a page to look tidy and informative so hard? I feel very restricted and the formatting (if it exists) is in my opinion overly complicated.

Say I want to add some text to go with my picture or table, text that actually follows the picture AND is visible in a .pdf export. This should be possible in my opinion.

Say I want to change my font size or decide what font size I want for my different headings, shouldn't this be possible?

Say I want to change some table properties like width and height etc. etc. , why is this impossible?

For numbered bulletpoints, why isn't there an option to continue my previous numbered bulletpoints (say before an inserted picture) instead of starting over from 1. ?

I am like most users used to MS Word or similar, is it possible to look in that direction and make the text formatting a little more flexible? (I might be committing the ultimate sin here I know..).

Thanks for any feedback!

Tom Erik
Sensor Developments AS