Here is the latest update on the status, and along with what I consider to be the best workaround (one that is so good it is what I would do if I were a word processor user even if this bug didn’t exist). Here is a more detailed description of the process, and although it focuses more on recto/verso layout the basic concept is the same, in particular how creating a setup as a template and then importing the compiled draft .odt into the template can make all of this pretty painless.