Must stick in a word here.
The way the toolbar is set up is totally correct in my meaning, and is similar to all other text editors out there.
Where do you find a texteditor that provides a toolbar button for H2? "Containers" are containers and shall be kept separate, as in Microsoft Word and Works, as in TinyMCE, as in FCKeditor as in... you name it. Toolbar buttons only processes the text inside of containers. Does that make sense?
I can agree with you that some controls are overkill for the average user. If you want to customize the look and feel of the toolbar you do that by creating a new skin, and applying some CSS to that.
Here do you have a preview of my own customized skin:
Clean skin