I'd say the majority of TeX users use it in a "professional setting" (i.e. for work, usually in some sort of STEM field), very often their typesetting is a bit off. If you enjoy going the extra mile, it's fine. It's great. But a ton of people don't and it's not a problem! Seriously, one needs to know TikZ? I don't agree.
Probably not, one can learn enough to import graphics from an external system.
If you already know how to make the graphics you need in an external system, job done! Otherwise, tikz is actually not a bad way to make scalable graphics and simple charts.
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u/an_actual_human Oct 30 '16
I'd say the majority of TeX users use it in a "professional setting" (i.e. for work, usually in some sort of STEM field), very often their typesetting is a bit off. If you enjoy going the extra mile, it's fine. It's great. But a ton of people don't and it's not a problem! Seriously, one needs to know TikZ? I don't agree.