Latex has a lot of caked in design mistakes which are never going away. Unfortunately typst seems to have replicated the primary one - inventing a new turing c

Latex has a lot of caked in design mistakes which are never going away. Unfortunately typst seems to have replicated the primary one - inventing a new turing complete programming language rather than piggybacking off an existing one. It's possible to conceptualize a much better latex but it would take years to build properly and build the ecosystem around it to do all the odd things people need when doing markup requiring 1000-2000 community packages.