cc demure yellownissan 4TRANdan

I have actually worked with LaTeX in projects before, twice. Last year we used Overleaf to collaborate on a report; a few years ago I tried LaTeX myself. I think it works great for getting a technical report out that doesn't look ugly. It makes difficult equations easy and can make simple documents or articles nice in little to no time. For a while, my CV was in LaTeX.

That said, using it left a bad taste in my mouth. I've found the templates to be wholly unsatisfactory, inflexible and generally a pain to deviate from the norm. I consider myself a designer so I do want to customize my layout, I just don't want it in the dreadful way that MS Word does.

Package and file management was buggy both offline and online for me. (Or I just didn't get it, that's also likely, but I definitely tried.) The Overleaf 40-page report had 12 packages that added necessary functionalities but resulted in the packages conflicting regularly and randomly. Syntax is, after using it frequently, readable but it feels more like writing code and less like writing. So my general feel towards LaTeX is that it introduces more problems than it solves.