If you feel like humor can be only on your side, then, what can I do? Along with the tweets, you'll need proper emoticons maybe. This one will suit you? It's yours
I really hated this Kobo exclusive by-product, the LPB (long paragraph bug). Now, believe me, it does not appear anymore when I read on my Kobo Glo v 2.8.1. thanks to Kobo Patcher v 0.7. So far so good.
After some books, I still failed to notice any alleged collateral damages (pagination problem ?) though I did spot a one liner at the bottom of a page. Nevertheless I would not deny these can exist for some particular books and/or machines and/or software versions. Just try it and make up your mind.
The main point is that, instead of being condamned to suffer and grumble, we have now a CHOICE. Furthermore, you can modify headers and footers to your taste with CSS. Whatever goes towards giving you more choice increases your freedom.