Comment by BeetleB

> Expressing complex HTML or LaTeX constructs in org-mode is more complicated than writing the raw HTML or LaTeX.

Eh? This makes no sense! You can embed any HTML and LaTeX easily in the doc. And you could since I encountered org over 15 years ago.

Since 2009 all my LaTeX and Beamer docs have been written in org. I lose nothing by using org.

> I've recently converted my blog from org-mode to markdown. 1000 lines of elisp, replaced with 200 lines of Python, and a 50x speedup.

I use Pelican which uses rst. But it was pretty trivial to write a plugin in Python to have it support org files.