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> don't have a good alternative for InDesign

There really is none, at least not that is comparable. InDesign is perhaps the one product where Adobe really shines.

Aldus PageMaker and Quark XPress were worthy predecessors; I used both back in the day, but Adobe bought PageMaker and discontinued it. As for Quark, not sure what happened to them but they're not around anymore.

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I used Quark XPress, and it really felt like it had a monopoly on the professional market in the UK at the time. It didn't really innovate, it was slow and clunky. Then InDesign came along and it was a breath of fresh air.

Took many years for the transition to happen, but a lot of people in my circle wanted to see the back of Quark.

Don't forget FrameMaker, who was also very much in use for structured, long documentation.

When I worked in desktop publishing (35 years ago, sigh) we used Ready, Set, Go extensively. Certainly seemed like a more intuitive UI than what little I've seen of Quark, at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready,_Set,_Go!_(software)

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