My experience is very different for LaTeX. The learning curve was huge, but it's totally paid off. I can't imagine writing papers in anything else. 10 years

My experience is very different for LaTeX. The learning curve was huge, but it's totally paid off. I can't imagine writing papers in anything else. 10 years ago I was running experiments using Python code that wrote gnuplot scripts and LaTeX tables. Now I cut out the middle man, and the Python scripts make the graphs themselves.