Not sure if I'll ever find the time, but I'd like to make the org-parser less useful for Emacs users. The idea is to write an org exporter which produces pandoc's AST JSON format; all Emacs Org settings would be respected that way, the detour through pandoc's parser would no longer be necessary, and remaining parser incompatibilities wouldn't matter for users exporting from Emacs through pandoc. Well, some day...