Been using emacs since 2003.

One thing I turn to VS Code these days for is Jupyter / Quarto notebooks.

It's not possible to have the same development workflow with Quarto and Org-babel since you can't run/rerun code chunks up to your current cell and automate figure management (for Org-babel).

I think these are not difficult to implement but these days I just want to use something that has these features out of the box and that notebook space is rapidly changing.

I used https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook at one employer and it works quite well for Jupyter. Of course Org is great but if your coworkers are unfamiliar it's probably a non-starter.