There are some answers at https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/32396/complete-path-numbering-of-org-mode-headlines-and-plain-lists.

John

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On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 2:30 PM Garreau, Alexandre <galex-713@galex-713.eu> wrote:
Hi,

This is provided on (almost?) all export formats, but yet when looking
at an org-file the prefered way, with emacs, there’s no numbering, by
default.

It’s so useful and simple (using a display text/overlay property), is
there just anything implementing that? mainline? if so why isn’t it?