To be honest, I don't understand the author's hatred of LaTeX. Maybe the experience is very different than 10 years ago? Today, if you use Overleaf, the experie

To be honest, I don't understand the author's hatred of LaTeX. Maybe the experience is very different than 10 years ago? Today, if you use Overleaf, the experience is not so different from that of Google Docs / the online markdown editor. If you really want a styling other than the default one, there are a bunch of templates you can choose from. You get document history and almost real-time rendering, and you can sync to GitHub if you want. You can self-host the front end. Given Pandoc, you can easily convert it to Word; it is one of the most portable ways to write in an open format. You can collaborate on it. Honestly, it's the easiest way for me to open the browser and edit.