it would be nice to see hook positions like joomla for sure but feature rich tools like this are 'by theme' as opposed to say joomla where we can ?tp=1 to see front office hooks/positions.
the native default theme is 'not' feature rich and provides basic theme so you can 'build your catalog'.
once you have functioning catalog then it's time to consider a 'high quality' paid theme, see addons. we use leo/apollo themes or clients as they contain all the tools to build great front ends, menus, index/productlist/product formats etc. I prefer leo/apollo as they originally came from joomla lol.
hope this helps