Dunno - to me it feels like the latex compiler should just run whatever it needs to for however many times until the output is done/usable, like basically all other compilers?
Imagine that your C or C++ compiler gave incorrect output, until you had run it some number of times. And that the number of runs required wasn’t obvious to the average user, so people just ran it again and again, to be safe. It’s absurd, yet we accept it for latex
But in this case the passes are manual!
so?
Dunno - to me it feels like the latex compiler should just run whatever it needs to for however many times until the output is done/usable, like basically all other compilers?
Imagine that your C or C++ compiler gave incorrect output, until you had run it some number of times. And that the number of runs required wasn’t obvious to the average user, so people just ran it again and again, to be safe. It’s absurd, yet we accept it for latex