In a future version of Scrivener, I would love to see a much easier method to compile with Quarto.
Quarto is becoming the de facto standard for academic writing, such as journal articles (or books) with figures, equations, and computer code. Quarto is built on other tools such as Pandoc, LaTeX, Typst, Jupyter, etc. Scrivener has successfully incorporated Pandoc through the hard work of community members (eg, Scrivomatic), and similar hacks to get Quarto working are now being created. But it would be amazing if Scrivener “knew about” Quarto and Pandoc and would facilitate compile modes for them.
It’s very high on my list of things to address with templates/presets, yup! Probably something for Typst too some day, which is an up and coming alternative to cranky old LaTeX.
In the meanwhile though, have you searched the Markdown & LaTeX category for Quarto templates? There are two really good ones I think, and never mind piles of discussion on how best to integrate Scrivener with this processing pipeline.
There isn’t a lot the software would need to do differently, frankly. Most of this is a matter of workflow, and that comes down to systematic configuration-based answers like templates. Kind of like how, can Scrivener help with writing LaTeX? got answered in the Non-Fiction project template category.