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several folks I know use tools like Obsidian as a digital Zettelkasten for quick[ish] manuscript creation

I use it as a 'pure' note-taking tool

And I accomplish what you're describing ("eat a cookie ... have a cookie") straight in Word (or Pages)

I pretty much never 'delete' a paragraph/sentence/etc ... until I've figured out how I want to reword it - I just move it around and/or write around it until I have what I want

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I use Obsidian myself. Just started to work with bigger texts and got lost big time. As I mentioned in another comment, I realized it is also about regaining focus and getting in the flow.

> I pretty much never 'delete'

That's the tricky part. I try to cut quickly, but still want to have access to deleted parts somewhere.

maybe it's an aspect of having learned "word processing" in the late 80s / early 90s ... but I find the "edit around" far more useful than "cut and hold elsewhere"

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