Can you expand on which org-mode features you like for this use case?

On the top of my head, among the useful features I'm familiar with, you can:

* nest tasks

* set deadlines

* set priorities

* filter ~arbitrarily

* have as much content as you want per item (in comparison with todotxt with is one line per item), including non-text like images

* have statuses other than todo and done (like waiting)

What else do you use that makes you particularly like this setup?

Org-mode is this thing I've been trying to use for a while, but it never sticks because I'm just too used to vim and plain text. Once in a while I look for a killer use-case, hoping it'd make me stick to it, to no avail so far.