The SI should provide information why the focused text/object has a particular formatting. And direct formatting is an important aspect here.
Are those - Style Inspector - bug in need for any confirmation? I assume the can be set to NEW by default.
Shivam Kumar Singh committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/0bca30bff7d9e49c81459122735565ff0d9816c3 tdf#134555 Show direct formatting at the Styles Inspector It will be available in 7.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.