? i never said that its a one-size-fit-all solution. certainly you would not write a software package in a notebook. but you might write a tutorial, textbook, academic paper, homework, personal notes, etc.
The issues with notebooks - in general - are unrelated to literate programming. The notebook format is convenient to have some kind of “interactive” programming though, rather than “literate”.
interactive programming is usually handled by the repl, for which you do not need a notebook
Note how babel is presented, by the way (last point in particular):
Babel augments Org code blocks by providing:
interactive and programmatic execution of code blocks;
code blocks as functions that accept parameters, refer to other code blocks, and can be called remotely; and
export to files for literate programming.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93pr...