Clearly written by someone who has never submitted an academic paper for publication. Latex (despite its many issues) does sevealthings well: (1) bibliographic references in many formats (2) internal references to figures and tables (3) figure placement (4) mathematical equations and special characters. Plus, many journals provide latex templates that correctly format your paper. I recently tried to move from Latex to Word because my co-authors preferred word, but getting the biographical references correct was a lot more pointless work. Almost all the arguments about layout the author make are irrelevant if you cite references and need to resubmit to a second (or third) journal.