> it might've been fixed for figures as its been a while, but shouldnt > latex environments with #+caption: and #+name: above them be exported > as figures? because currently the user has to write \begin{figure} and > \end{figure} explicitly which would work
This is not the case. The LaTeX output I posted in my previous response was the exported output from your example Org source. I did not add the \begin{figure} and \end{figure} tags manually. Karthik