Things break all the damn time with LaTeX. Example: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/730126/update-to-cle...

Sometimes bugs appear only if you load three specific packages in a specific order. The fact that there are no namespaces and every package can modify everything makes it a complete nightmare. LaTeX would do well to take a hint from the lessons we learned in the past 40 years. Or just retire it and push something sane forward, like Typst.

Latex is not Tex.

Neither is texlive. Texlive and LaTeX is what this thread and the comment you replied to are about.

Typst is a replacement for TeX.

Not LaTeX.

You'd of course need to read the documentation on what TeX and LaTeX are to understand this. Most people would rather write a new system.

I don't know why you think the condescending tone is appropriate. I've been using LaTeX for twenty years and I believe I understand the difference. I also respectfully disagree on your assessment of Typst.

Have you written documents in raw TeX?

I’ve written book-length documents in Plain TeX (probably what you mean — nobody writes in “raw” tex) and in LaTeX. I would say that Typst, if it’s a replacement for anything, is a replacement for LuaLaTeX, because of its programmability. But in this article I framed it as a possible LaTeX replacement:

https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/