Anytime you have to test a new software, the first things you'll see are the defaults. You have to work for some time with them to adapt your workflow to the available tools and take advantage of the specificities.
In Scribus, frames are central. Adobe InDesign, in some ways tries to avoid them by using a single tool for text edit and text frame, and at the same time it can import pictures without requiring a frame. But in any case, a frame is made even if automatically. We've also seen in Scribus that tables are a kind of group of generated frames. The easy part is that there is nothing special to learn to use and format tables.
Another good feature with Scribus frames is that they can easily be converted to any other kind of frame. So, if you created a Text Frame and want to put an image into it, you can still do so without deleting and drawing a new frame. This is very important because the default frame shape is set to rectangle and cannot be changed...