LaTeX
is a typesetting system that (initially) was designed to give a nice layout (ready to be printed and to be published) without the creator of the document need to take special care about the output during his work. It supposed to make its own calculations by the internal compiling procedure and give an already beautiful result (but of course adjustable with many ways).
As such a system, the "WYSIWYG" approach seems to be completely inappropriate for it. The result after the compilation should be better that "what you see".
LyX is an approach of LaTeX
typesetting that is preferred mostly by newcomers to LaTeX
world. Mostly from people that can't (or don't want) get over the "Office" habit and in most cases they want to "force" their document to "look like LaTeX" but without the "real coding part" of creating a LaTeX document.
Any LaTeX
user that will use LaTeX
more than once or twice will expect to have something more specific than the default LyX
abilities by pressing buttons, and will possibly come here to get an answer on how to accomplish this specific layout or behavior etc. So, the LyX
user will have to use the non-graphical interface of LyX
to add some real code hopping that the LyX
will afford this code and will result a document behavior like if this code had been added to a "real" LaTeX
document. (But as far as I have seen here... this is not always the case).
In any result of the above situation, surely (s)he will need again and again such a help and thus will be driven to learn at least some basic LaTeX
commands in order to not make again and again the same question with just another variable/command/whatever. But then, by gaining soem basic skills in real LaTeX
coding and getting to know how more abilities LaTeX
"coding-approach" is offering, (s)he getting over the bad habit of the WYSIWYG approach and becoming a LaTeX
user from a LyX
user.
So, there are not really many people here familiar with LyX
that are able to help in questions specific to LyX
and in most cases their answer is a general LaTeX
answer by using the "code-mode" of LyX
and the hope that it should/could work.
If the question is LyX
specific, there are people that could help, but they possibly didn't needed much from tex.stackexchange.com and they are not active here, or they have already forgot the LyX
interface as "ex-LyX
" users