The main issue is that modern tools are not like classic desktops, like Smalltalk workstations or Emacs, meaning a single, fully-integrated environment, where a

The main issue is that modern tools are not like classic desktops, like Smalltalk workstations or Emacs, meaning a single, fully-integrated environment, where anything is at user disposal, with end-user programming concepts built-in. In org-mode I can create "good looking slides" in a snap, I can quickly craft some chuck of code, run it and get some results, it's damn limited in "dashboard" terms, let's say I can quickly plot some data but the plot is just a crude static image, make it glow with PGF/TikZ it's very time consuming so it's not an option either and it would be still static, because Emacs itself it's the right tool but from an older era. Modern tools offer more eye candy and quick manipulation but only for very limited actions in a very inflexible UI obviously not integrated with anything else. R probably is the quickest with R Studio/quarto to produce contents quick, dirty and still nice to see, but it's still far from the flexibility of Emacs. I think there is no solution without re-writing the entire modern software stack with the classic paradigm and modern stuff doable thanks of much more horsepower under the wood.