No matter what format/tool you come up with, there will be use cases it doesn't support, yet are needed. When it comes to the written word, the world of legiti

No matter what format/tool you come up with, there will be use cases it doesn't support, yet are needed. When it comes to the written word, the world of legitimate, needed use cases is HUGE. The word processor is the natural evolutionary response to this need: A complex hodge podge of features and ways to visualize the content you're creating. You can tell that this article was written by an engineer because he's willing the world to fit into his neat and tidy box. It completely ignores the needs of most other industries. Were markdown to become the new standard, it wouldn't take long for a thousand ISO specs and extensions to come into being, until finally markdown is as complex as SOAP, and people go back to using Word.