Unconvincing. To address just 2 of the issues noted, you can certainly get packages to make well-formatted, but not bland, documents from LaTeX markup. Just b

Unconvincing. To address just 2 of the issues noted, you can certainly get packages to make well-formatted, but not bland, documents from LaTeX markup. Just because most people use "article" and Computer Modern fonts doesn't mean you have to. And, it's easy to change the LaTeX float placement parameters to make floats "not float away" in most cases.