The beautiful thing about markdown is that it looks correct in plain text as well as when parsed. I often look at Markdown READMEs from a text editor or a conso

The beautiful thing about markdown is that it looks correct in plain text as well as when parsed. I often look at Markdown READMEs from a text editor or a console and things like lists, headings, links, etc. just make sense the way they have been formatted, making easy smooth reading possible. Dumbdown doesn't. That's reason enough why this is not for me. Also I find the markup not hard to remember at all. It's fairly straightfoward and second nature to me by now.