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Yes, collaboration and maintenance is another plus for TeX, which was not considered in this study.

However, spell/grammar checking and the longer edit-compile-review cycle (e.g. when coding TikZ pictures) is still an issue for me where Word probably has an advantage.

Any tool suggestions for grammar checking LaTeX documents? I use vim's spell checking, which is ok, but a tool which understands grammar could be better than a simple dictionary lookup.

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I do my diagrams outside of LaTeX, or at least separately. I don't see an advantage of having them done with the text given that the typesetting of a fixed rect is trivial.

Though it's a totally unreasonable workaround, I usually draft my TikZ diagrams in an online editor like WriteLaTeX, and copy-paste the finished diagrams into my documents. I'd like to have auto-refreshing documents offline, but I haven't found a tool that works with my environment (vim with a simple build script).

latexmk + your document viewer of choice (evince for me) will rebuild your document every time you save. Evince will automatically reload the new document. I use it with vim.

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