It's great that they're continuing work on Latex, but actually, I think my biggest annoyance as a fairly casual user is that different third party (even those that come in texlive) packages don't play well together. I've always had problems trying to get multi-column text and figures to work as expected and it's invariably taken a lot of fiddling. I'm slowly starting to move towards markdown and other markups that output to Latex to avoid this...is anyone else doing this?