That does work, you are right, but it's still confusing for when to use it and when not to. Not to mention, if you write a topic starter and forget to, you cannot undo it. It'd just be a whole lot easier if the site was set up more consistently. 

In addition, the trick does not always work. If you mean to include bullet points the spacing will still be different, because bullet points cannot be used in combination with the shift+enter trick. This is just an example, but you see how your solution is limited and why we thus still hope that the spacing will be fixed to be more consistent. 

I agree that maybe phoenixes should be in the game..... but they should be really hard to get. Everyone wants a phoenix but we need to remember how rare they are. Perhaps a year-long quest. Or a looooooooooot of galleons. I don't know, but we want to avoid that everyone can just easily get a phoenix in their first years.