If you’re putting steaks into food processors, then you have more problems than a lack of a nice dinner.
Looks like we found some angry neckbeards fighting for a niche OS after all. 
I gotta tell you, I’ve been creating documents in word processors since the days of “Quick Brown Fox” on the C-64, and I disagree one hundred percent.
To each his own.
So what do you do when you have a 1400-page document and you need to change the font weight on every section heading? 
Hasn’t come up and is unlikely to.
Well, I suppose if you never have to change or otherwise maintain the documents you create after typing them, you have a pretty sweet situation and I envy you. 
For me, though, even on a two-page document it’s easier and faster to make one change to a style definition than to manually go through the document and change just three or four instances of the same presentation structure. This is true whether I’m writing something for LaTeX, working in a word processor, or using XHTML/CSS.
But you didn’t ask if I had to do that.
Going to an extremely specific task and claiming it’s easier to do in something other than Word doesn’t really explain what’s wrong with Word (or any similar word processor.) It’s akin to saying there’s something fundamentally wrong with the concept of the automobile because it’s not especially good at the stuff a Bobcat is good for.
Word processors are generic and do a lot of things using buttons. That’s the point. Something like LaTeX is totally, hopelessly unsuitable for most users; how is going back and typing in a bunch of slash commands any easier for the common man than hitting format buttons?
Well, I guess I generally just assume that maintenance is an inherent part of document creation. It is for me, anyway, same as with writing code. Again, if you can guarantee that once you type something and specify its format, you’ll never have to change any of it, then yeah, there’s not much productivity to be gained. I just don’t think that’s a common scenario.
I’m not saying that Word is horrible, by the way. I’m saying that inlining all your presentation style at the same time you’re crafting document content and structure is a bad practice that makes effective maintenance impossible. As I said, Word does have tools for correctly managing document styles; it’s just that they’re underused.
Yeah, I suppose most people’s writing isn’t the equivalent of a steak in any sense.
A properly constructed Bobcat would take the input of an automobile and transparently…
It’s not as if automobiles are rare on the ground these days.
I can’t let that post by without linking to this: http://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20070322/1157960476967.jpg
(I’m not sure why I can’t find a larger version of that pic.)