The general idea behind your points are sound and correct. However, the problem is you seem to be generally ignorant of widely known points of knowledge about

The general idea behind your points are sound and correct. However, the problem is you seem to be generally ignorant of widely known points of knowledge about Markdown. > not changing a spec for over a decade should not be considered pathological but actually commendable, if the nature of spec is complete enough for it's purpose 100% agree in theory, but Markdown's creator never wrote any spec. when creating it. Initiatives like CommonMark are efforts to specify and unspecified language, not to evolve nor replace any existing spec.