Yeah, but getting into org-mode low key feels like the tinkering equivalent of starting a heroin habit. I say this as someone who basically lives in org-mode nowadays. I am the weird kind of person who relishes the learning curve, and for me, getting to tinker with my tools helps keep me motivated to actually use my note taking systems. I think that people like me are outliers though.

That is to say that I don't think "wannabe" is the right word, because Obsidian isn't trying to be org-mode. I'd maybe call it "org-mode lite", because of how it takes some of those features and repackages them to be more accessible to a wider audience. I don't think that's a bad thing though — indeed, Obsidian was my gateway drug to where I am now