As a vim user, I am not an expert on org-mode. But on the zettlekasten forums, I read an interesting criticism even of Emacs org-mode as forcing a sort of lock-in

"[Apps like Roam and Notion] force you into a single-app interface with your data. Interestingly, even though it's a plain-text format, org-mode sort of fails here as well because Emacs is the only way to access most of the functionality of an org-formatted file."

-galen in https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/404/moving-on

Could someone more familiar with org-mode comment on this?

There's quite a few other org mode clients:

- Filestash: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash => demo: https://demo.filestash.app/login?next=/view/Documents/gettin... (I made this one)

- Orgzly: https://github.com/orgzly/orgzly-android

- Organice: https://github.com/200ok-ch/organice

- Org Web: https://github.com/DanielDe/org-web

Emacs is undoubtedly the rolls royce but the ecosystem is thriving