I'm linking here a discussion we are having on Github. In a nutshell, a visible DOCX title would become invisible when the document is turned into an RST via pandoc, because the title is interpreted as medatada. What do you think? You find the issue below:

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/4583#issuecomment-383587026

I also opened an issue about documenting the semantics of metadata

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/4584