If you would like to use a more sensible word processor, LibreOffice is a good alternative that only asks for a donation if you can afford it. It uses a superior approach to document design, where styles drive formatting, all the way down to page headers and footers (or even paper sizes for that matter). In other words, you make your chapter text “Heading 1” in Scrivener, and in LibreOffice that generates the page break, what side of the book it prints on, whether it has a header on that page, what page style it should resume to after that point, and so on.
What you compile out of Scrivener can then be almost entirely devoid of intentional formatting (even page breaks), where the only thing that matters is the names of the styles you use, so that they match up with the names of the styles your LibreOffice template uses.