But I once has a math student in my physics class who prefer submitting her assignment typeset in LaTeX. I told her it’s up to her, but it wasn’t a requirement

But I once has a math student in my physics class who prefer submitting her assignment typeset in LaTeX. I told her it’s up to her, but it wasn’t a requirement from us. She basically said it would be more difficult to do the assignment otherwise and she would prefer LaTeX instead. To this day I still don’t understand how it would be easier,l. But I also seen some people prefer doing “analysis” by printing out a plot. To me that’s very inefficient and using interactive plots are much better. I guess the situation is similar, that the ways we think are so different that we can’t imagine how people doing it otherwise would be simpler / better in any way. (You could imagine carrying the next step in a derivation can be much simpler as you can just duplicate the line and modify from there. Also macros can help. With enough abstraction it could be easier in some way.)