Merging a bunch of papers into a thesis draft is much harder than I thought. Keep stumbling upon unexpected TeX issues.

Thinking of the wasted person-centuries of scientific productivity wasted on TeX debugging...

This is what I'd love to see:

1. Conferences accepting papers in markdown (publishers can do any formatting they want);
2. Universities hiring people specifically for editing / typesetting everyone's papers.

Yes, TeX allows for creating beautiful, sophisticated diagrams, charts and whatnot. But are they really necessary to get the point across?..

If anyone's interested, this is the issue (similar to the one) that prompted me to write this thread: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/511621/possible-conflict-between-biblatex-and-navigator-packages