Ah! Imagine my pleasant surprise when I discovered that ConTeXt has built-in features that you need a bunch of different LaTeX packages for. It was painless to,

Ah! Imagine my pleasant surprise when I discovered that ConTeXt has built-in features that you need a bunch of different LaTeX packages for. It was painless to, for example, flow text around figures. The bad thing is... academic journals and conferences accept only LaTeX. Research articles often end up packaged in a larger work like a PhD dissertation. Amending markup from LaTeX to ConTeXt is painful. So one ends up using the inferior tool (LaTeX) for typesetting one's own larger work too, like I did :( (Though I used Koma-script classes instead of standard LaTeX classes.)