I've discovered typst in the last year and used to build a resume and cover letter template that feeds from a YAML file.

After a bit of tinkering and understanding the idiosyncracies of Typst, the joy of having reliable, consistent, beautiful, data-driven resumes and cover letters is not measurable. It basically lifted any barrier to applications, while whatever I had before I had always considered a burden.

On top of that, I can add hiring process data directly to the yaml file to run further analysis.

Can LaTeX do this? Most probably, but the learning curve is the difference.