> Version-controlled and Highly Reproducible: I can go back to any saved version of any of the org files above, and reliably reproduce output for "distribution" (PDF, tex, HTML etc.). In other words, it is all highly reproducible.

I love org-mode, I've lived the org-mode life, I ran a consultancy entirely off of it (time tracking, invoicing, task list management), I wrote a book in it... But boy, it was not reproducible. It is maybe salvageable because it's plaintext. It's definitely easy to version control. But tons of stuff, including e.g. details of how exports and tangling worked, broke between org versions.

TL;DR: I love org but I think this is overstated unless you use a pretty small, vanilla subset of org-mode.

Thanks for the experience report. May I include it in my post?

Better still, if you've blogged about it, I will be happy to link across, in context.

You are correct in ascribing my enthusiasm to a narrow use-case.