If you ever want easy-to-update, high quality documents, LaTeX is what you want. You simply see the difference between word and LaTeX. With microtype, you can easily reproduce the quality of highly paid typography-experts.
The world of pain I go through when I have to collaborate with partners in government or defence, sending back and forth word files from various word versions and tracking comments and changes leaves me losing the will to live.
Oh if we would only have the GitHub GUI for Office files!
Also commenting sucks, in some versions replies add a comment (which renumbers them all..), and in the next version the comment numbers are not displayed. It's a mess really.
Add-ons like iManage are relatively useless if you work with multiple orgs.
LaTeX is great for a lot of things... but you might want to look at ConteXt too. While it's less sophisticated in many ways, but way way more advanced in others, like color-handling and inline figures and images, and better support for advanced PDF features.
It's also a little bit lower level... whereas LaTeX has a lot of opinionated defaults, ConteXt tends to expose a few more of the primatives.
Basically - if LaTeX is the better Word, ConteXt is the alternative InDesign.
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4987/why-should-i-be...