I need to disagree with this strongly (I'm an engineering professor of 15 years). I am so "anti-latex" that I border on zealot. I'll save you my sermon, but I

I need to disagree with this strongly (I'm an engineering professor of 15 years). I am so "anti-latex" that I border on zealot. I'll save you my sermon, but I can't help but point out that saying "I spent 75% of my time in there" (ie Overleaf) is a pretty obvious "red flag". Did you ever consider that using Overleaf may have hindered your phd productivity? Shouldn't you have spent 75% of your time in the lab, or your IDE, or the field? Does this statement not make you pause and reflect that maybe using an archaic and arcane typesetting language as a "word processing tool" was a trap? The time people need to spend with the formatting and markup in latex rather than the actual creative process is at the top of my many complaints about latex. I only hopped on this thread to say this so that I could add to the evidence against using latex in case any grad students are reading this and considering using latex. It is absolutely NOT necessary and is in NO WAY helpful. Please leave the type-setting to the publishers and focus on knowledge and content creation.