Book formatting is still shockingly painful — let's talk about it

I've been deep in book production lately and the same frustration keeps surfacing: no tool does print and ebook well. Not convincingly.

Typography — Font wars (Garamond vs. Palatino vs. Minion), leading, justified vs. ragged-right — print designers treat these as sacred, but ebook readers don't see half of them. Is typographic craft still worth it in 2026?

The print/ebook split — InDesign EPUBs rarely feel right. Vellum nails ebooks but is Mac-only. Atticus is promising but young. Why hasn't one tool cracked both?

Reflowable vs. fixed layout — Fixed EPUBs look gorgeous but are invisible to most Kindle users. Reflowable feels like surrendering to lowest-common-denominator design.

Looking for: workflows that handle both formats, thoughts on whether typography craft still matters, and any AI-assisted typesetting tools that are actually production-ready.

What are you using — and what's still broken?