Well, I wouldn’t, because then, as I said, you would also have to be O.K. with writing e.g. in italics, making a paragraph break and then suddenly be confronted with a different character formatting.
Also, I am not complaining about the paragraph style, this one gets carried over as defined (despite another bug: [url][NB] Next Style setting does not work correctly]).
Btw the behaviour I am expecting is exactly the one which other applications being capable of dealing with paragraph and character styles show, including Word, Libre and OpenOffice.
Let’s see what L&L thinks about it.
… and: Happy New Year!