[zomglings]

Spent my teens and twenties in mathematics departments. This is a very polarized behavioral pattern:

1. The majority of people just don't care very much. Just get LaTeX working locally, get it to run the packages you need - amsmath, etc. - and start working on your mathematics.

2. There is a large minority who dive deep into the rabbithole on their editing environment, typography, diagramming, etc.

Amusingly, you can tell how likely someone is to fall into either camp based on the amount of care they take with and over their notes (mostly hand-written in my day).