No, they are not. Thinking they are does not make it so and it just leads to poor typesetting. The typographers I know typically have a BA from an engineering college. The advent of desktop publishing and later other forms of electronic publishing has hollowed out the field.

LaTeX makes them obsolete in either case.

When web browsers support LaTeX-like hyphenation and justification with microtypography (tiny tweaks to the tracking tightness), then I will be obsolete and happy.

I would accept less than 60 frames per second.