Markdown is a case study in "worse is better". It's a great idea, the fact that human/machine friction must be reduced to the essential for this kind of applica

Markdown is a case study in "worse is better". It's a great idea, the fact that human/machine friction must be reduced to the essential for this kind of application, and that 99% of the times you need just the basic features: titles, italic, bold, lists, unformatted code blocks, and a few more. But this initial intuition, was not supported by a good design, since the evil is in the details. I hope somebody will build a new syntax based on this initial intuition, but doing a better work. The key point to understand, IMHO, is that Markdown is an user interface. That's why strongly-engineering-minded people fail to provide something that people want to use, and why instead Markdown won.