Isn't it the other way? Plain text is markdown but markdown isn't plain text? You're leveraging some semi-readable things[1] to inject into the document to ha

Isn't it the other way? Plain text is markdown but markdown isn't plain text? You're leveraging some semi-readable things[1] to inject into the document to have special meaning, but normally written[2] text will render just fine in markdown. 1. I say semi-readable because BS like image and link tags really stretch the bounds of "as someone would naturally write it". 2. Normally written here is carrying a fair amount of weight but the "obscure" symbols used in markdown (that aren't just plain text conventions anyways) are extremely uncommon in normal communication.