First of all, I agree with your points made. I think its a bit more nuanced but I want to add something else. What’s way more important than vibe coded new tools is speeding up the dev of already existing ones. We live in a time where many great tools are Foss the everyday user can use. Think the gimps, the inkscapes, the fediverses etc. Improving those tools, making them easier to understand and more streamlined is way more powerful and i think ai is currently helping with that.

In truth hes just a huge fire emblem fan and goons to edelgard or something

Is typst that much better than latex? I am in science so latex is the quasi default for publishing.