[hilios]

Having been tought the use of Word in school I have made many of the same arguments in college. Unfortunately some word processors do start to exhibit "What you see isn't actually what you get, once you export it to pdf", suddenly those vector graphics are badly compressed jpegs or text is converted to images. And for collaborative works you better hope everyone is using the version of the same tool, or suddenly you'll have to worry about different interpretations of the stuff they hide from you.

Also there are plenty of specialized Latex editors offering side-by-side views, you don't actually have to use Emacs.

[blindstitch]

This happens every time with google docs, my nicely formatted tables always get messed up and border thicknesses end up wrong.

[malshe]

Vector graphics compression is real pain in Word.