I started long, long ago writing documentation in the UNIX world. I used ed/vi to produce flat text files and nroff/troff to format them. I still look back on this time as "the good old days." (Since I started with ed, and learned the commands, I was actually much faster on vi than most of my coworkers.)
These days I still do a lot of work with plain text editors. I also frequently save my word processor files as text files to make them much smaller and save them on (very) old media.
But, I've gotten good enough at word processors that I can import and format text files pretty painlessly, so I don't feel under any pressure to change.
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