No matter how badly I want org-mode to be the solution here (and it admittedly covers a lot of people’s needs) there is nothing about plain text files that will

No matter how badly I want org-mode to be the solution here (and it admittedly covers a lot of people’s needs) there is nothing about plain text files that will enable me to move objects and rich media around in 2D space. Of course in org-mode you could handle metadata of blobs of data and include things like coordinates but plain text doesn’t really have any concept of 2D space. Any sort of rich media you want to embed other than images require a different view like web view or pdf tools but doesn’t naturally embed inside of the text file. Would it be impossible to do? Probably not, it’s emacs. But org-mode as it is right now certainly doesn’t cover most of these requirements.