I guess I don't see why that's a complaint about Word at all. When I'm writing doc, I fire up Word, set the view to Draft, set the Zoom to whatever is comfortab

I guess I don't see why that's a complaint about Word at all. When I'm writing doc, I fire up Word, set the view to Draft, set the Zoom to whatever is comfortable, and use the built-in styles for Normal, Headings, and Titles to structure my document. I have just as much screen real estate dedicated to Word as I would to VS Code. That automatically builds the navigation pane in recent editions, and since I'm creating a living document roughly 95% of the time, that's perfect. I literally care nothing at all about the exact formatting; just the document structure, content, and spelling. I'm doing about as much formatting as I would with a markdown document. If Word auto-formats something and you really don't want it to, you hit Ctrl-Z to revert it. If it keeps bothering you, you turn that auto feature off. I get the argument that people -- that is to say, programmers -- like to write in their text editor of choice, too. However, I think that's what it is: preference for the familiar. Writing LaTeX feels like you're programming and lets you use tools you're familiar with, so it appeals to people who like to write programs. That doesn't mean the extra effort is really paying off. I think arguments that the results from Word aren't good enough or professional enough don't really hold water, either. Take a look at any of the opinions from the Supreme Court of the United States [0]. Download any of those opinions and look at the metadata. Some of them are scanned documents, but many of them say: "Application: Acrobat PDFMaker N for Word". You'll find the same thing if you look at petitions that have been filed, and they get quite complicated [1]. [0]: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/18 https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/18 [1]: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-306/63707/20180914111804389_Larrabee%20Petition%20--%20Final.pdf https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-306/63707/20180...