Very basic editing and formatting features at a high price

It functions as advertised and works fine for posting blog entries, but at this price I expected much more powerful and more usable editing tools. Why, for instance, is there not a formatting toolbar available with icons for easily formatting highlighted text? Every web-based editor has a formatting toolbar, so why doesnt a native app have one? Why make me pull down a gigantic "Format" dropdown menu when all I want to do is add a hyperlink or italicize some text? And there are also advanced blogging features that remain unsupported. For instance, why cant I designate an image in a Wordpress post as a "featured image"?

I feel like I spent $39 on something whose functionality really only deserves, say, $5.

KingB2 about MarsEdit - for WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, etc.