That’s a good and intuitive solution.
I was just saying that since it is a bit annoying to deal with (in other areas as well), a granular level of formatting items might serve as a fix for this in the meantime, just like how Workflowy handles items.
Edit: Things are currently “affected” by being treated as lists:
- Adding checkboxes
- Marking things as complete
- Deleting a top level point deletes the entire list (which I guess could stay).