As someone who has converted to LibreOffice from WordPerfect, I find it an excellent program. One upgrade that would be most helpful is to have it create booklets (landscape and portrait automatically), rather than having to use an external booklet creator, that is not WYSIWYG. I hope future editions might have this.
Creating brochures is already possible : http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/33102/creating-brochures-in-write/ http://templates.libreoffice.org/template-center?getCategories=Brochure%20/%20Pamphlet&getCompatibility=any