u/Fuzzy-System8568

So I will be blunt, I have been one of these icky people who has only ever used LyX for my LaTeX writing. I did it because that is how I was taught it.

I dabbled with overleaf last year but, due to my university (I am a lecturer) wifi causing overleaf to sweat something fierce, I abandoned the effort.

So I am here to ask a very specific, but potentially divisive, question...

What's the deal with LaTeX Editors?

Overleaf seems to be (one of the few, just to cover myself haha) standard go-to's, but editors here seem to be a little bit of a pariah / not that many genuinely "good" ones tend to pop up.

So, as a relative new person, I am asking straight, what is the current state of the LaTeX Editor Ecosystem / what editors are out there I should be looking into (or not) and how did it reach this state?