The thing about org mode is that it has everything you need to do the full fancy latex typesetting without loosing the ability to export to other formats the wa

The thing about org mode is that it has everything you need to do the full fancy latex typesetting without loosing the ability to export to other formats the way you do if you write raw latex. Of course there are times when you have no choice but to duplicate a block if you are doing something really fancy, but that is a fairly rare occurrence.