Right, I guess that’s my point: If Typst wants to compete with LaTeX, IMO it needs some sort of mechanism by which journals will deem a Typst submission accepta

Right, I guess that’s my point: If Typst wants to compete with LaTeX, IMO it needs some sort of mechanism by which journals will deem a Typst submission acceptable, along with readily available templates for said submissions. That’s a big hill to climb probably, but probably the single most valuable development they could achieve from a product diffusion perspective.