[kkfx]

I like LaTeX for the quality of it's pdf output, I use in for docs that need to be "printed" (non necessarily on paper, but still 'fixed typographical form for potentially long term archiving) not for anything else and yes I DO HATE pdfs because of their design, but PostScript is not much common these days and while a bit better for certain aspect is not much better in general, dvi is even worse.

For my notes, for anything that need to be "live" I use org-mode because:

- it's a far more natural markup than anything else

- it's rendered INLINE, no need to jump between a source form and a rendered one, a thing MD lovers fails to understand

- it's an outlining tool, another thing most other tools fails miserably to understand

- it easily incorporate live things in other languages (org-babel) a thing no modern REPL-alike DocUI like Jupyter can't do

Long story short I prefer the best tool depending on the job. HTML might be the least common denominator tool, making it the worst in essentially all cases. XML for machine usage, SGML in general, are good for machine usage, but they are very impractical in current usage, just see the actual crappy state of things for e-invoicing with XML/XADES docs + XSL to render them in the end as pdf for the human. They are a good too in some case, but again not the best for any specific case.