I think that’s pretty mean towards the free software developers spending their spare time on Latex and the GNU utils.
I and many academics use Latex, and I personally am very happy to be able to use something which is plain text and FLOSS.
I also don’t see your problems with tar; it does one thing and it does it good enough.
Because everyone else does, and if everyone else does, then I must, and if I do, then everyone else must, and then everyone else does.
Repeat loop.
For all I care it goes on the same garbage dump as LaTeX.
speaking of which, you might want to check out typst if you haven’t heard of it - I really hope this replaces most uses of LaTeX in the next years.
I think that’s pretty mean towards the free software developers spending their spare time on Latex and the GNU utils.
I and many academics use Latex, and I personally am very happy to be able to use something which is plain text and FLOSS.
I also don’t see your problems with tar; it does one thing and it does it good enough.