MS Word can be a surprisingly good and powerful type setting system if you use its fancier features correctly, like named styles. I used to have a Latex resume and switched to LibreOffice several years ago. It gives me more than enough precise control over layout and styling, with less effort, and it still generates good PDFs.

TBH, if a paper is not written by Latex, I naturally question the research and learning ability of the authors, and I don't want to read it.