I'm sure there is a way to tell TikZ about that. In Inkscape you would just shift-click all words and click the baseline icon in the align-and-distribute panel

I'm sure there is a way to tell TikZ about that. In Inkscape you would just shift-click all words and click the baseline icon in the align-and-distribute panel. The thing with preparing figures is that you want to iterate rapidly on small changes. That works so much better without a mental context switch between code and result and without having to wait for the compilation to finish (significant if the figure is embedded in a large document). If you had to prepare hundreds of very similar diagrams that all need to look great, then I could understand the point of using TikZ for such a job. Typesetting document text is different because LaTeX does a great job by default.