On LaTeX


I enjoy typesetting, love LaTeX, and particularly beamer package, but things like the one described below make me go berserk.

If you use a verbatim environment in a beamer document, prepare to google. The problem you will almost certainly run into is well known and if I may quote,

The documentation of beamer describes this problem in various places. And you really not the first getting errors due to verbatim content. When I see the trigger words “beamer + verbatim + error” the first guess is “missing fragile option”.

Am I missing something or is this a kind of wrong architecture that causes such weird dependencies? Is LaTeX, the most powerful typesetting tool in observable part of the Universe, fundamentally flawed?