Definitely beautiful pdf output, but I was never happy with the available "latex2html" converters.
Bonus for being able to render mathematics in your docs.
Edit -- Also, I agree with you about the learning curve. Although it's very easy to get good-looking docs if you use one of the canned documentclasses and built-in commands, once you start to stray from those you're in deep water very quickly.
The learning curve is steeper but the flexibility is high.