In my experience, LaTeX (especially other people's LaTeX) sucks for the same reason coding (especially other people's code) sucks in general. People tend to be

In my experience, LaTeX (especially other people's LaTeX) sucks for the same reason coding (especially other people's code) sucks in general. People tend to be messy and don't really care about code presentation, only whether it "works". LaTeX code written with care is a pleasure to use; same as other code in general. I dare anyone to edit an MS Word document via its xml.