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> Worse, they spend the time while writing, while latex allows for separation of tasks,

I theory, yes. And that's also what I'm usually trying to do.

What I have observed though with Latex folks is that they type 3 words and then look at the preview or re-compile to see if it looks good.

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I mean, as with code, the actual typing is not really the bottleneck.

I also basically read the right pane rendered output, but mostly as a "reading out what I've written and evaluating whether it sounds good" most of the time, not really messing with layouting (especially that LaTeX and Typst does that very well, I can be reasonably sure that my paragraphs will have decent hypens and such).

I have written some documents for which I have yet to even look at the 40+ pages produced in the PDF as output. I'll admit thought that I wasted some time finding a nice template before starting to write.

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