Latex is good for like your math thesis, but most of the time it's huge overkill because it's pretty hard to do certain things. The cool thing about pandoc is that you can stuff latex math mode into it, even though it's usually just markdown, so it's the best of both worlds.
at that point why not just learn LaTeX?
I used to own - and wear - a t-shirt that said "I am a LaTeX fetishist" when I was younger.
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Latex is good for like your math thesis, but most of the time it's huge overkill because it's pretty hard to do certain things. The cool thing about pandoc is that you can stuff latex math mode into it, even though it's usually just markdown, so it's the best of both worlds.
Probably because it's considerably less pleasant and more difficult to work with and there would be no benefit to doing so 98% of the time