> There's a vim plugin for org mode that I used to use, but TBH, Emacs excels at org mode.

Which one did you use? I use https://nvim-orgmode.github.io/ and am happy with it, it's fairly modern written as a lua script.

I did see an older one https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode but i don't think that's maintained anymore.

Probably the one that is not maintained anymore. I stopped using the plugin in 2018 or thereabouts.