> It’s just extremely complicated Depends on what you're trying to do. To publish an article or book - no it's not very complicated. There's a vast package eco

> It’s just extremely complicated Depends on what you're trying to do. To publish an article or book - no it's not very complicated. There's a vast package ecosystem and knowing where to turn can be daunting, but there is great community documentation out there such as by Overleaf[1] and the community on stack exchange is lively and lovely. Building your own functionality can be complicated, however partly this comes down to LaTeX being a very different programming paradigm to the conventional C-like languages. > the ecosystem has badly aged Care to substantiate? > you need makefile and docker if you want to do it right, and nobody uses docker Simply untrue. If you have a setup that warrants more than a conventional setup there are native-LaTeX build tools like arara which are simple to use.[2] [1] https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Main_Page https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Main_Page [2] https://gitlab.com/jm4rc05/arara https://gitlab.com/jm4rc05/arara