No, TeX is not intended to allow anyone to easily create documents. It is intended to allow Donald Knuth to make beautiful books out of TAOCP. That it has allowed (by this point) a generation of mathematicians, scientists, and increasingly tens of thousands (at least) of others writing structured documents, particularly academics, to also create beautiful books and journal articles, and is the backbone of mathematical publishing these days, is incidental.
If corporate documents are mostly created with Microsoft products, it is certainly not about the ease with which those products can be used to create structured documents (hint: it's nearly impossible to use them for that), but rather about market-share network effects, highly effective monopolistic tactics on Microsoft's part, and (a wrong) general perception about the relative merits of different methods.
I'll agree with you that TeX (or even LaTeX or ConTeXT) is no walk in the park, but to suggest that it has a particularly high barrier to entry, especially compared to the knowledge required to, e.g., write out a high-level mathematical formula longhand and have any clue what it's saying, is so overblown it becomes absurd.
The market for document preparation systems is brutal, and TeX has never had effective evangelism or much real attempt to make it "newbie-friendly". But so what? The world is a big place, with plenty of space for different approaches. I use (La)TeX for math, InDesign for political science papers, and Text Edit for reading letters sent to me in .doc format by my uncle. All of them work well for these purposes; again, so what?
Also, PDF resumes, whether created with TeX or anything else, are accepted nearly universally in many fields.
If corporate documents are mostly created with Microsoft products, it is certainly not about the ease with which those products can be used to create structured documents (hint: it's nearly impossible to use them for that), but rather about market-share network effects, highly effective monopolistic tactics on Microsoft's part, and (a wrong) general perception about the relative merits of different methods.
I'll agree with you that TeX (or even LaTeX or ConTeXT) is no walk in the park, but to suggest that it has a particularly high barrier to entry, especially compared to the knowledge required to, e.g., write out a high-level mathematical formula longhand and have any clue what it's saying, is so overblown it becomes absurd.
The market for document preparation systems is brutal, and TeX has never had effective evangelism or much real attempt to make it "newbie-friendly". But so what? The world is a big place, with plenty of space for different approaches. I use (La)TeX for math, InDesign for political science papers, and Text Edit for reading letters sent to me in .doc format by my uncle. All of them work well for these purposes; again, so what?
Also, PDF resumes, whether created with TeX or anything else, are accepted nearly universally in many fields.