Yep. I use org-mode every day. I think it's because most emacs users have gotten tired of typing "Yeah, emacs does that. Has done for a few decades now. And if it isn't precisely what you're looking for, here are a dozen ways you can customize the behaviour before you even get into hacking elisp." Most of us are in "whatever, if they haven't gotten it by now, I'm not going to try to make them" mode. I just wish there was a config setting in HN to filter out the "look! yet another new editor for programmers" spam on the front page.