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>What do you use it for?
For documents with lots of equations and documents that will eventually be printed. Using it for everything is not good idea. In engineering everyone writes specifications and technical documentation in word and nobody cares about how anything looks. It's too easy to get carried away with typography and cool features, but at the end of the day nobody cares if there is too much whitespace in paragraphs and there are no ff and fi ligatures.
>Do you like using it?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Tables are still pain to make, documentation can be intimidating (tikz, pgfplots, ...).
>What program do you use?
Emacs with auctex + reftex + yas snippets + flyspell mode. This works well for me, since it automatically generates and inserts references and bibliography. It's so easy to add bibliography with emacs - drag and drop paper, emacs reads its DOI or ISBN and inserts bib entry automatically. Bibliography is pain in word in comparison, so I wouldn't use it for academic work.
I've come around full circle in my document preparation and started appreciating wabi-sabi nature of word/libreoffice documents. Even though it's crappy from typography point of view, there is something about imperfections nature of those documents that makes them interesting to look at. For example take a look at pic related: pixelated logo, indentation, no justification, no hyphenation, table title too big, spacing in tables... But I kinda like it despite it's flaws. And making that table would be suicide in latex. I even started using gnumeric for calculating various things instead of scripting - it's just so simple and easy. Even if I rice my emacs to do something similar it would be convoluted and clunky. Sometimes it's best to get rid of your OCD and just do the work, sometimes I tend to worry about my tools more than my work.