To be fair, if you are a writer it might be better to work primarily with paper and pen as it allows quite a bit of flexibility in how you organize/edit the tex

To be fair, if you are a writer it might be better to work primarily with paper and pen as it allows quite a bit of flexibility in how you organize/edit the text while keeping everything in front of you. Having done the paper/pen work, final editing, spell check etc. can be done on a computer which would be far superior to a typewriter at this point.