pandoc is much less powerful here since it can only parse a subset of LaTeX, as opposed to LaTeXML or lwarp which actually processes the LaTeX/TeX code expandin

pandoc is much less powerful here since it can only parse a subset of LaTeX, as opposed to LaTeXML or lwarp which actually processes the LaTeX/TeX code expanding the macros etc, and then generates the output HTML/XML. pandoc is nice for simple documents, but it is completely inadequate for many use-cases, which is why ArXiv is using LaTeXML and tikz.dev is using lwarp, rather than the more ubiquitous pandoc.