Not to bellitle your achievements (honestly!), but I do not think your last paragraph can be a commonly encountered scenario.
Either way, I'll back out a bit and ask a more elementary question. Is a workflow possible wherein one writes in anything-but-latex (Word/Markdown etc) and then uses latex to typeset? Because I (and the author) agree with you that a) standardisation is a good thing and b) latex is excellent at typesetting.
What latex is weak at is me writing my paper in it, and then trying to read back whether what I wrote flows well.
Either way, I'll back out a bit and ask a more elementary question. Is a workflow possible wherein one writes in anything-but-latex (Word/Markdown etc) and then uses latex to typeset? Because I (and the author) agree with you that a) standardisation is a good thing and b) latex is excellent at typesetting.
What latex is weak at is me writing my paper in it, and then trying to read back whether what I wrote flows well.