LaTeX or not?

I am debating whether the everyday use of LaTeX for people writing documents that don't involve very dense mathematical formulation adds much value - most people accept that it is superior to packages like MSWord when you have a very high equation-to-word ratio. For some reason, people tend to get emotional about this issue when I raise it so keep the comments clean if you are going to comment. Beamer presentations made from LaTeX files are really great so lets not argue that one. But is the effort that a lot of people put into TeXing their documents worth it? 

LaTeX package: Animate

Aidan Kane demonstrates the use of the LaTeX feature animate on his blog. Excellent dynamic graph of the Irish aging pyramid. Aidan will be speaking in Geary soon so he has set the bar very high for himself.

Seminar on Introduction to LaTeX

Here is a link to a talk I gave last Friday on how to get started using LaTeX. In case anyone is interested.