I do feel for you :) but at the same time I think Markdown, the tool, is not to blame for this. I write most of my documentation in Markdown or just plain text

I do feel for you :) but at the same time I think Markdown, the tool, is not to blame for this. I write most of my documentation in Markdown or just plain text files. The reason is simple, I want the same focus that I had when writing the code. Doing a context switch from code/IDE to html/Web is a nightmare for me. If that would be mandatory for some reason, my documentation would suffer from more bitrot then it does now.