Eric,
Care to share your org-evil mappings?
One 'conflict' which bites me every time is this:
I hit /blabla to locate a heading directly under which I want to insert a text line.
I then hit enter to acknowledge the find.
The display shows the heading line followed by its body lines (which all start with a hyphen)
I then hit o to insert a line directly under the heading and before the first existing detail line.
The result is however that the heading body closes, and that a line is added before the next header line, so under all existing detail lines of this header line.