The issue for me with LaTeX is the amount of time I spend messing around trying to get different packages to play nicely together.
Sometimes you get lucky and everything just works. If it doesn't... you google it, and pray that someone else hit the same problem and solved it, because trying to actually figure out the problem from first principles is doomed -- the language (and ecosystem) makes Perl look sane.
Sometimes you get lucky and everything just works. If it doesn't... you google it, and pray that someone else hit the same problem and solved it, because trying to actually figure out the problem from first principles is doomed -- the language (and ecosystem) makes Perl look sane.