[b6fan]

I sometimes find LaTeX too verbose. And sometimes it's very tricky to do seemingly trivial things.

For web development, HTML, CSS, Javascript can be written directly, or generated by some other template language like haml, slim, coffeescript, sass, stylus, etc.

I believe the same applies to TeX. Although AFAIK there aren't template languages targeting TeX, treating TeX as "dynamic HTML" or just use your favorite language to generate TeX sometimes turns out to be much cleaner and more maintainable code. The generated TeX is not human-read friendly, but just works.