I don't speak for everyone as situations differ. In my case, I'm not just writing long-form English prose, but I write technical articles that need stuff like <

I don't speak for everyone as situations differ. In my case, I'm not just writing long-form English prose, but I write technical articles that need stuff like <var>/<sup>/<sub>/<code>/<abbr>, decent control over block structure, custom-styled content, and lightly interactive content. You'd have browse my website to see examples of my existing work and why raw HTML works much better for me than Markdown/AsciiDoc/troff/etc.