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Not sure why you're being sarcastic. PDF is terrible for anything other than printing documents.

It is perfect for its job, and nothing else comes even close to it.

Yet they persist. So does latex, even in 2023. There is intrinsic value in both that OP does not want to acknowledge.

And mp3 persists despite being inferior to any alternative. The reason isn't intrinsic value, it's inertia.