The author misses the point that people who like using LaTeX like that they can focus on and write the semantic structure of document to get a good looking firs

The author misses the point that people who like using LaTeX like that they can focus on and write the semantic structure of document to get a good looking first pass, and then incrementally improve the looks as they see fit. I've now used Word for some official documents and it's always extremely difficult to enforce semantic structure. Numbering across different levels. Getting word to recognize structure for Numbering of sections and subsection always feels like a hit and miss. Everything is difficult to enforce/customise. You have to continously think about both semantic and looks, rarely can you separate them. Admittedly, LaTeX being a tech from 70s with fancy for macros and text replacement, is not ideal. But it is still better than most systems of similar nature.