I hate preparing talks, but I've realized I hate it less when slide prep involves writing my own functions for how I want things formatted and then knowing they will be applied uniformly. Typst has some flaws -- it says it's all markdown, but in practice it's closer to LaTeX than it will admit, but it's also not quite LaTeX, so there are also things you can't do.... still. This addresses my greatest pain points with Powerpoint and LibreOffice. I will probably either stick with Typst or move to LaTeX when I hit its limits.