[diffeomorphism]

Can you try to phrase that more precisely/constructively by including a reason why it is "awful" or give an example of "good tooling"?

As far as editing goes, latexmk, syntax highlighting and good shortcuts are all I ever use and am perfectly happy with (emacs+auctex). It is a different paradigm than WYSIWYG, but different does not say anything about good or bad.

Now writing new latex classes, I agree. That is very unintuitive and would greatly benefit from simplification, templates and tools.

[abritinthebay]

I could go into a long, detailed, breakdown of how bad TeXStudio is but, frankly, if they want UI/UX work they should pay for it. Which they clearly don’t.

It’s... decent enough in the pack of “open source UI” but that isn’t a high bar.

Here’s the thing about that (oft repeated) line about WYSIWYG vs WYSIWYW: it’s bullshit.

There’s no justification for it other than the deficiencies of the tooling and tool chain. It’s an excuse.