Why does this matter? Offer both markdown and WYSIWYG and let each user use what they find preferable. If you prefer WYSIWYG, keep using it. As an example I us

Why does this matter? Offer both markdown and WYSIWYG and let each user use what they find preferable. If you prefer WYSIWYG, keep using it. As an example I used to mostly write the markup where it's accepted even when there are formatting buttons right above the text input area and lately I use an arbitrary mix. There are some editing operations that work very well though, like in Slack where you can select text and Cmd+V a URL that's in your clipboard to make a link--that's easier than the markup or using formatting buttons.