I don’t know how to count that low
I am certainly guilty of this problem. I&#x27;ve pretty much hated MS Word for about 10 years now, more or less since I started being an engineer for a living. I hated its equation editor, I hated how the documents ended up looking, I hated the damn spacing between the letters, every time I used it I always felt like my documents ended up looking like ransom letters.<p>I discovered LaTeX + Pandoc, and it created documents that I thought looked much nicer, and I could use trusty Vim to work with it, so it felt perfect, and I subsequently made fun of people who insisted on using Word. After about two years of doing this, my dad eventually snapped back saying &quot;Tom, we&#x27;re all really sorry we didn&#x27;t become software engineers, I guess we&#x27;ll all quit our jobs and go back to college,&quot; which (rightly) made me feel like an asshole.<p>Obviously this stuff was easy <i>to me</i>, I live and breath in text editors and in plain text, but I had to realize that not everyone is trying to create publisher-worthy documents.  They want a document that looks good enough to share with some coworkers, or print out for a school report, and for that MS Word will work fine for most use cases. They don&#x27;t really want to sit there and learn the minutia of how to compile with `pdflatex` and dissect its weird error messages.  They didn&#x27;t really feel the need to finagle with begin and end tags, and that&#x27;s totally fine, people should use the right tool for the right job.<p>After that I would still recommend LaTeX (particularly if the document required equations), but I became substantially less pushy about it.