The problem with LaTeX is that you are given an already unstable jinga (ie., style file etc.,). You can always go back to the basics and use simple TeX for you

The problem with LaTeX is that you are given an already unstable jinga (ie., style file etc.,). You can always go back to the basics and use simple TeX for your documents if you think groff/troff is simpler. However, I'd encourage you to give ConteXt http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ a try because it is the spiritual successor to TeX (one tool for all the typesetting) instead of having to depend on "third party" stuff like LaTeX, most of which very few of us (outside the original sty author) understand.