I'd say it'd be more accurate to qualify your statement as such: "the value of org-mode documents decreases as a platform to manipulate (but not distribute) you

I'd say it'd be more accurate to qualify your statement as such: "the value of org-mode documents decreases as a platform to manipulate (but not distribute) your data outside of emacs"[2]. Definitely, that's what I meant. I share org stuff with ox-html or ox-latex. But colleagues cannot really use my org documents unless they are on Emacs.