It's easier and good enough to just use LyX, a graphical document editor with a bunch of backends and templates, and if you really need to do something special

It's easier and good enough to just use LyX, a graphical document editor with a bunch of backends and templates, and if you really need to do something special you can still drop down to LaTeX and do your own templating. https://www.lyx.org/ https://www.lyx.org/ It's published under GPL so relatively protected from corporate nuisances. Takes five minutes to teach someone how to mark headlines, add content listing and change document type, then a little more to teach how to add tables and images.