Arguably if you spend a lot of time writing a document it becomes more likely that others are going to read it. I am a peer-reviewer and an editor on a few aca

Arguably if you spend a lot of time writing a document it becomes more likely that others are going to read it. I am a peer-reviewer and an editor on a few academic journals. In my field, a mix of authors use [Xe](La)TeX and Word. There's a definite quality bias towards the TeX articles -- not because of the typesetting per se but rather because it's indicative of a lot of time spent carefully preparing a document to a standard. I'm sure others in similar fields have similar experiences.