Comment by brudgers

Since hammers and nails are a common tool-workpiece example…consider the nail gun.

Theoretically you can drive nails with a 22 caliber blank cartridge without making the “call” through a nail gun. But you won’t finish laying shingles as quickly and easily…

Or to put it another way, there’s a reason assemblers are almost always better than machine code and compilers are almost always better than assemblers for the ends people care about.

I mean why use Latex at all when you could write your own typesetting language? Maybe because you are not a knuth.