It can but I'm not sure the effort is really worth it. I went through a period of my life where I was using LaTeX for literally every document I produced. Presentations, all kinds of charts and cheatsheets with diagrams and illustrations through TikZ. They looked beautiful in the end but nobody who consumes them appreciates the massive effort. People assume you are just slightly better at Word rather than really good at LaTeX. Not that the only point of learning things is to impress others, but it's pretty demoralizing.

At the time I thought 'just learn one tool well and use it forever', but now I feel more like 'just use the best tool for the job'. In this case I would say that's InDesign and a few hours of tutorials, mostly. The illustrations you can choose another tool if appropriate.

> Can latex produce this level

Yes. I was quite serious about the space shuttle analogy.

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/158668

It can be quite a bit of work configuring custom templates though and any one off deviations are likely to require significant effort as well. There are specific use cases (for example publications with lots of mathematical notation, or the periodic regeneration of tables and charts by a small script) where it can be quite useful.

Most people would probably be better served by a standard office software suite though. Even something as simple as Google Docs is sufficient for the vast majority of documents.

(Seriously though, TeX & Co can do just about anything. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/159445 https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/95783)

LaTeX frontends tend to be slow, because LaTeX is not designed for realtime recompilation or layout. I prefer editors with quick but not realtime updating, where I can write the code and see the document change.