[notthemessiah]

A task easier said than done.

Also, it should be considered that it's impossible to make breaking changes in the LaTeX language otherwise you lost the ability to compile a paper from 30 years ago.

But if you're trying to do something simple, I would say go for pandoc and use whatever format you're comfortable, then convert it to TeX: https://pandoc.org/

[abritinthebay]

At that point... why use TeX at all?

[diffeomorphism]

Because it looks much better. If you want proper kerning, ligatures, spacing, layouts etc. just reusing all the work that has been put into TeX is much better than trying to catch up.

[abritinthebay]

Hmmm the Windows API strategy? That’s not super convincing.