I feel LaTeX relates to MS Word like OpenScad to FreeCad. The scripting makes making technical parts often much easier, and more maintainable. I for instance w

I feel LaTeX relates to MS Word like OpenScad to FreeCad. The scripting makes making technical parts often much easier, and more maintainable. I for instance wanted to replace a metal rod in an antenna with a smaller diameter, and changing several mounting parts for the rods became changing a single variable. Plus, being eble to comment scad files makes it much easier to meaningful share parts (the STL files on Thingiverse are hard to modify). The usual caveats apply: people tend to either shy away from the few days it takes to learn OpenScad, or, once they invest the time, there's a tendency to over-engineer scripts and not focus on tasks at hand ;)_