I am certainly guilty of this problem. I'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.
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 "Tom, we're all really sorry we didn't become software engineers, I guess we'll all quit our jobs and go back to college," which (rightly) made me feel like an asshole.
Obviously this stuff was easy to me, 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't really want to sit there and learn the minutia of how to compile with `pdflatex` and dissect its weird error messages. They didn't really feel the need to finagle with begin and end tags, and that's totally fine, people should use the right tool for the right job.
After that I would still recommend LaTeX (particularly if the document required equations), but I became substantially less pushy about it.
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 "Tom, we're all really sorry we didn't become software engineers, I guess we'll all quit our jobs and go back to college," which (rightly) made me feel like an asshole.
Obviously this stuff was easy to me, 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't really want to sit there and learn the minutia of how to compile with `pdflatex` and dissect its weird error messages. They didn't really feel the need to finagle with begin and end tags, and that's totally fine, people should use the right tool for the right job.
After that I would still recommend LaTeX (particularly if the document required equations), but I became substantially less pushy about it.