FWIW: I'm not a PS Style expert.. I'm not even sure if the below could
be implemented at all (compatibility reasons). Only thinking out loud..

A) I surely grasp inconvenience mentioned in comment 30 comment 36.
Where the order of actions has influence on the formatting. Terrible,
IMHO

B) Default Paragraph Style is actually "Master/Parent Paragraph Style"
(like comment 5 points out). It's not a ordinary style, in principle it
affects all other Paragraph Styles except if those other paragraphs
explicitly define otherwise. Currently the 'Master/Parent Paragraph
Style is set to be default too.,

C) There is the (taste) question: do you like the 'Text Body' formatting
to be default.. comment 38

A way out would be to change Next Paragraph Style from headings and such
to Default Paragraph Style instead of Text Body. However you likely into
the issue at comment 22.. so no go

If the current called Default Paragraph Style would be renamed Master
Style or Parent Style. And a new Style introduced: a 'dummy' style:
which would be an empty style.. so exact copy of Master Style or Parent
Style (the current Default Paragraph Style), called yet Default
Paragraph Style. And this style would be made default, instead of the
Master Style: problem 22 would be gone.

If you change Next Style to the 'future' Default Paragraph Style
(instead of Text Body), the formatting difference would be gone as
mentioned under A

If you prefer different look you can modify the Default Paragraph Style
(new), without affect all other styles. Sadly it's impossible to say:
replace Default Paragraph Style (new) by say Text Body Style. Which
would make it easy an existing PS style to something else of desire. Why
would I manually configure the default Paragraph Style to match the
specifications of Text Body.

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Title:
  Default paragraph style should be "Text body"

Status in LibreOffice:
  Confirmed
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Summary: when creating a new Writer document, the first paragraph has
  the style "Default Paragraph Style", which leads to surprising
  behaviour.

  This bug has been reported in upstream [1], but at least some devs
  seem to believe that this is a packaging issue [2] so it might make
  sense to be fixed in downstream. Ideally fixed in upstream as well.

  [1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47295
  [2] even though this issue is seemingly present on all platforms

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