> This is also something people keep getting wrong about Markdown as originally presented. Markdown isn’t a format. It’s a convenience tool that helps you write

> This is also something people keep getting wrong about Markdown as originally presented. Markdown isn’t a format. It’s a convenience tool that helps you write some of the boringest and commonest parts of HTML easier, and you can easily drop into more wonky HTML at any time. In general, design decisions need to be decreasing the overall "entropy" of the system. Tell me how we're mitigating the problem, not just moving it or (gasp) worsening matters.