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Indesign is for paper (PDF) and kludged for ebooks. At best you can use it for fixed layout ebooks (which are a horrible imitation of PDF).
There is no "facing page" concept on real ebooks. While text can flow around an image, it's best that it doesn't for widest compatibility.
All you need is properly styled Word or LO Writer and Sigil or Calibre. It's not "typesetting" as in PDF for paper. Perfectly replicating paper is a fail. Real ebooks are a subset of web pages, but paginated, as a web page would be on a printer preview.
The ebook page is what ever size and resolution the users ereader or app has.
The user expects to vary margins, line-height (so don't set it ever) and font size, and even font-face.
We actually do the epub first, via LO Writer, proof epub and when it's finalised make a copy of the LO Writer doc and add page styles, headers, footers, page numbers, book style formatting etc and output as a PDF for paper.
The source doc for an epub has only one page style, small margins, no headers, footers or page numbers. No white space entered. Everything is paragraph styles which become mapped 1:1 to CSS if you convert an docx to epub in calibre.
Sigil allows hand building epub3, mathml etc.
Indesign is hampering you. Like trying to do calligraphy with a sewing machine.
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