Hitch,
Not everyone wants to publish to Kindle only. And Pages is an Apple App. Pages produces a universal ePub3 backward compatible to ePub2 and supports embedded fonts for Apple Books.
1. Write your manuscript in Word
2. Open it in Pages
3. Export it as a universal ePub
4. Until Apple fixes this, tweak the eBook paragraphs in Sigil.
If the writer only wants to publish to Amazon KDP, then I agree. These steps work
1. Write your manuscript in Word (use a KDP template)
2. Save as a PDF
3. Upload the PDF to KDP
Rob
http://www.robadamson.net