But what if you a computer scientists or an economist that needs to write graphs, charts, tables, code, etc? Last time I tried to strikeout a column it required some weird TikZ shenanigans.
Agree LaTeX is painful here. For tables and inline code snippets, it is indeed a genuine shortcoming of LaTeX.
On the other hand:
* For graphs and charts, I'm not sure how it could be done much better in a text-based programming language.
* Even for tables you have to have some sympathy because remember, the cells in the table can (and occasionally do) contain very complicated mathematical contents. Tables are hard, as many a frontend dev will assure you.
