Hi Brynn,
I understand your explanations.
I won't insist in saying what's better for newbies because I don't feel I have a broad enough experience about this aspect. What I can say is that I had to set the "use last style" option for geometric tools in every installation I've done for colleagues and friends because they usually expect the next object to be drawn with the same style they've set for the last one: - draw an object (not the right style); - open the style dialog and set it correctly; - draw another object: expect it to have the same style just set in the dialog. This happens because they usually think that the style they have just changed behaves like when changing the font of the current paragraph in a word processor and then resume typing.
Also, they usually find cumbersome the fact that the same is not applied to text objects, for which you need to keep the tool's own style unless you want to have to change it every time you switch from a geometrical tool to a textual tool and again when back to a geometrical tool. And you can't set the text style before typing the first letter but you can for the second one...
So my experience seems to be the exact opposite of yours... :)
Luca
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