Haha, don't worry I don't want anything. I was just curious if you were going to hit me with some package that completely transformed it's usage or something that I was ignorant of. But in the end it's still LaTeX :) I'll check out LyX though, but I'm definitely gunning for slighter learning curves these days.
No problem. If you would change your mind or have some more questions then don't hesitate. But it's not really just about this or that package. They add functionality but don't really transform it into something else. That would be almost like expecting C to change into Python after adding a library ;). That aside, I have discovered Scribus recently and it feels a bit better to deliver some of the more complex designs. I'm in a similar position to you, only maybe a bit farther on the curve: I wish I knew how to make LaTeX do some of this stuff :P.