Latex replacement

I am wondering, will latex ever be replaced by a more modern, hassle free alternative? I am writing in latex since years now but it is a pain often. When you need something specific, I have to google or ask ai to build some wonky code get a layout correct or whatever. latex just isn’t intuitive and its fragmented libraries which are in conflict all the time are just are annoying. We need some modern python style replacement where tweaking the layout does not require obscure code from Stackoverflow or LLMs. Also error messages are often hard to diagnose.

However, since academic journals only accept latex, I don’t see any chance for a contender to really replace latex. Until then I also dont see any incentive to learn alternative tools.