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Frabjuous, LaTeX cannot find enough correct hyphenation patterns for any given text of meaningful length to avoid overfull boxes... unless you basically include everything in a \begin{sloppypar} ... \end{sloppypar} ... which results in underfull boxes galore.
That's what I do personally... but the moment you do that, the quality takes a giant leap downwards. The fact is, with high quality typography being the goal... LaTeX is totally incapable to find adequate(ly numerous) hyphenation patterns for pretty much any given text of as little as a few pages.
This is a fact. Anything beyond this is just another "but it just has to be good enough" argument.
Which is fine. A poorly done LaTeX PDF is still ten (or a hundred?) times better looking than anything in one of the alternative formats. But the fact remains: quality typography requires fixed layouts and manual intervention... hyphenation being one of the big reasons why.
The fact that we can arbitrarily lower quality expectations to the point where even software-hyphenation will do is handy... but it's no equal value substitute for manual attention + fixed layout.
- Ahi
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