I always thought I'd find Lyx more useful than I do. I tried it many times, and it works; it just doesn't offer a speed or ease advantage over writing LaTeX for me out of the box. Maybe that's because I used LaTeX for a while before discovering Lyx, but the speed improvements are overcome by the clunkiness and unfamiliarity of the interface, where the ease of using a familiar text editor gives LaTeX the edge.
Really clever project though, and I hope there are a lot of people whom it does help.
Really clever project though, and I hope there are a lot of people whom it does help.