[alephaleph]

I don't think the fact that you need to look up and copy recipes and download packages to do most complex formatting is a strength of LaTeX, and one of Typst's stated design goals is to make formatting composable enough that you don't need a package for everything. But guess only time will tell whether that works out.

The other selling point you're missing though is that Typst's compiler is designed for fast incremental compilation, which makes the Typst live preview and Multiplayer/Google Docs-style collaboration experience significantly nicer than Overleaf's, where a change to a large document could easily take 30 seconds or more to render.

[mrazomor]

Typst still has a syntax that one needs to learn (or Google it).

Overleaf's slowness is not a LaTeX issue. I was using LaTeX IDEs with near-instant previews more than 10y ago.

Then again, why such emphasis on the preview? Both LaTeX and Typst are not WYSIWYG. The content is already in front of you. There's space for improvement, but building new systems is not the most optimal solution.

[auggierose]

Building new systems is actually your only chance of achieving an optimal solution. That's why there is death.