>Then there's the moment where you're 36K into a story and realize it
>should be in the first person.
>
>--G.

It's things like that which make me long for advancements in computational linguistics so you can just choose a "story refactoring" like you can with source code. Imagine being able to easily change tense, point-of-view, reliably adjust character details (name/sex/nationality/etc.) or timeline with just a few simple commands.