I loved working with org mode - but I would occasionally hit some accidental key sequence which would totally blow up my entire document (I am not an eMacs expert so it was probably some vim mode problem)! I also probably tried to over organize things. Maybe with a simpler setup things would work better.
If you're using evil or something similar, I would say that's probably the culprit. Writing in org mode using vanilla emacs should have about the same "surprise" as writing in Notepad. If you have speedkeys enabled (which I doubt is the default), then yes - certain keys at certain positions will cause surprising behavior.
This is why I like nano. Easily the simplest editor out there that actually feels like modern command line software and not something vestigial from the 1980s. All I need is syntax highlighting anyhow and nano checks that box after a git pull of someone elses hard work making those rules for every file format under the sun.
