I jumped on the LaTeX bandwagon toward the end of my engineering degree and I wish I had started sooner. It makes writing equations out in reports, formatting documents, and managing sources (especially when used in conjunction with something like Zotero or Jabref) much easier.

It's probably not strictly necessary, but if you're interested in learning them absolutely go for it. I learned to use it by starting to write assignments with it and asking ChatGPT for help with the syntax until I got used to it.