I could not know for certain, but from my experience converting document formats, such as pdf to doc or html or what have you, I suspect that the converted document will be quite different and include quite a lot of inscrutable noise compared to a document originally created in LaTeX, even if the output appears similar or the same.

I've always been in awe of users of LaTeX because they almost always have another discipline, usually academic and with years if not decades behind them, yet in order to publish they effectively need to become a typesetter, which is an entirely separate discipline in itself. Everyone else just hires the professional typesetter or page designer (probably provided by a commercial printer, marketing or design firm), but academics don't seem to have that convenience available to them. Imagine if in order to drive anywhere you had to design and build your own car for every trip.