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Haven't used latex for any actual papers but when it was pitched it became pretty clear it was for power users. I just assume it's working like they want it to.
Also, word formatting has a few options to determine how the formatting should interact with text that even has little example icons for it. IIRC I just did wrap text and moved it around easily once I was finished other editing.
Dorks recommending that other dorks who couldn't even figure out Word should instead use a gui wrapper around an overcomplicated text-based markup format are a special kind of something.
That said, I havent even looked at LaTeX in over twenty years so maybe it has had dramatic improvements since the invention of markdown...
i used it in uni a few years ago, i think it's manageable. Wasn't too complicated. On the other hand, I'm a programmer so my experience may not transfer lol.