TeX is 45 years old, and we have a lot of problems with it now because in 1978 it just wasn't really designed for stuff we need it to do in 2023. Plenty of people are working on alternatives to TeX that are suitable for use in 2023, which is *exactly the problem*, because they're not designing something that will be suitable for use in 2068
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@julesh where are your most obvious pain points with it? 2068 is quite a ways away, but do you see something on the horizon that you think needs to be addressed?
I tried to pull LaTeX into my employers work flow a few times, but it required a level of sophistication that my co-workers just were not comfortable with.
@antares @julesh when I, fresh off the proverbial boat, started my maths PhD in U. of Western Australia, in 1992, departmental bureaucracy was done in TeX. And secretaries were capable of taking a handwritten maths texts and typeset it in TeX, on one of these little cute Mac Classics. Something went wrong from that point on. I guess HR is to blame, for hiring secretaries and bureaucrats unwilling to learn?