> My guess is that people struggle more with Image placement in LaTeX by a huge margin.

You should guess again.

With LaTeX the biggest problem with images is seeig them reflow in a place you wasn't expecting because you did not paid attention to what you actually did.

With Word, you even have to fight it to not put images and their image captions on separate pages.

More importantly, with LaTeX the worst you get with images is them looking nice and neat in some other part of the text, maybe at the end of a section or with a single paragraph between them. With Word it's on par for the course to get your whole doc screwed up just because the image reflowed to the next page.