100% backing this as an improvement. To have the background image scale without any control in this situation leaves you with only one option - add in page breaks everywhere.
This destroys the flow of text, and for longer documents turns into a major problem.
The background image should have an option 'Fixed' or similar, which allows the background image to be fixed to a page, where multi page text doesn't affect the background image size.
100% backing this as an improvement. To have the background image scale without any control in this situation leaves you with only one option - add in page breaks everywhere.
This destroys the flow of text, and for longer documents turns into a major problem.
The background image should have an option 'Fixed' or similar, which allows the background image to be fixed to a page, where multi page text doesn't affect the background image size.