In my experience, Org mode and babel shine at - "literate programming" where the output is actually commented code and the eventual documentation - "reproduci

In my experience, Org mode and babel shine at - "literate programming" where the output is actually commented code and the eventual documentation - "reproducible science" articles, where small independent snippets are executed, even piped into each other, to produce "results" in the form of tables, charts, ... The author seems to need to highlight differences, which may not fit without hacking its own features, which he appeared to be reluctant to.