Comment by II2II

You are, of course, correct. I went down that road when hired to edit the LaTeX of a book for publication. Yet I also look at it as a case of LaTeX encouraging documents to be logically structured in the writing phase and doing the actual formatting later. It is, after all, a cumbersome process that is best handled when the text is ready. (Granted, that may be specific to the circumstances in which I used LaTeX.)