Should I bother with LaTeX? I've been fine with Markdown until now, but lately I've been facing an inferiority complex about it lol

I suggest go with LaTeX. It's the ideal text storing tool. Direct conversion to PDF. No sweat.

If you want more complex functionality and macros, but don't want to upgrade to latex right away, you should check out asciidoc.

It's pretty readable and feature complete. Asciidoctor is a very popular implementation of it.

@ChappIO Oh cool I'll be sure to check it out

I can definitely recommend LaTeX, however I still prefer Markdown for short, simple documents because of its simplicity.
Both are amazing but for different purposes.

@n88888888c also, if you use the .adoc extension, GitHub will render it just like latex

Absolutely! It's so beautiful, I love it. I sometimes write stuff just so I get to use LaTeX ☺️ Also, Computer Modern font that you get with it (designed by Knuth) is probably one of the best modern serifs ever.

The right tool for the right job. It depends vastly on your needs

LaTeX and markdown is way too different things.

FFS NOOOO! Use latex only if you have to because of thesis or book. Seriously you will swear and hate the world a lot when using latex.

@Huuugo this! Leave it, if you need LaTeX, use pandoc to transform markdown to LaTeX, you could then touch it up a bit. But really you'll probably never need LaTeX.