I don't think that is the primary benefit of latex.

Latex is exceedingly expressive and lets you be very precise about exactly what you want on the page and how it is typeset - much more so than Word is capable of. This comes at the cost of learning the language, which isnt user friendly - e.g. I've never had a word document that didnt compile.

Turing complete code, by contrast, demands a high level of language expressivity to do everything beyond the most basic tasks.

Using a GUI to write code becomes like using Word to professionally typeset a an academic textbook very, very quickly.

So quickly I'd argue that there's almost no point even starting.