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I would not use latex for any document that should be a template for other people to fill in. Unless you're a peer reviewed journal.
I wouldn't use latex for anything that requires precise positioning of images and elements. InDesign and similar are a much better option.
I do like to use markdown for any document that does not fall into those categories. I like to use latex for any document I'm writing which I want someone else to style.
Latex is very cool for styling, but in my experience most of the time you do not really need that amount of configurability and the added time to correctly make a styled document in latex is way more than what it would take you in word, even when you have to fight word to make it. That is unless you need equations, but then again: just write markdown with latex equations.