My problem with LaTeX is that a ton of programmers think it's a good idea to use LaTeX instead of, say, Word or Writer or plain text wrapped at 80 characters or a Wiki for things like process or project documentation.
Programmers love to use LaTeX, because they get to feel like they're doing something exciting like writing a computer program when what they're actually doing something incredibly boring like writing documentation. They get to use the same plain text editor they're familiar with. They get to use the same version control that they use with their code. I've seen programmers try to use many justifications for why LaTeX is important for their doc because LaTeX has some feature that everybody knows they don't actually need to use.
The truth is that unless you have a literal need for actual true typesetting, you should absolutely not use LaTeX for documentation. The reason for this is two fold:
1. "First, you need a properly configured LaTeX build environment," are never, ever the first words that anybody wants to hear when they need to read, update, modify, and manage documentation. Documents that are not going to be published outside the company should never require a build environment.
2. No matter what your job is, you're not going to have it forever and someone will probably be in it after you. If all your documentation is written in LaTeX, then suddenly, "Ability to write, modify, and maintain LaTeX documents," is a mandatory requirement. That's a significantly higher bar than "Ability to write, modify, and maintain Microsoft Word documents." Congratulations, you just added significant complexity to your job for essentially no benefit to the company.
The only time you should favor LaTeX is when you're writing a document that will be published and is essentially entirely text. You're a mathematician or some other discipline and actually need to write extremely complex symbology. You have extremely complex and numerous references to manage. You're writing a high level research paper. Congratulations! You're the intended audience for LaTeX.
If you're a software engineer writing standard documentation, put the text editor down and use Microsoft Word. Documentation is meant to be read by everyone, not make you feel good about being forced to write it.