> We really need a new publishing tool for everyone that doesn't require intricate knowledge of how the entire web computing stack functions. That tool is call

> We really need a new publishing tool for everyone that doesn't require intricate knowledge of how the entire web computing stack functions. That tool is called HTML. It is usually supplemented by CSS. Every Markdown element has a one-to-one translation to it. This webpage is a particular stylesheet, plus basic HTML elements that you could write in <> style just as easily as you could write them in *_# style. If HTML requires particular defaults to look right, then that is a really great reason to fix the defaults, but not a really great reason to junk the whole thing and start over. Markdown isn't particularly good, it isn't particularly standardized, and it isn't even compatible with reader mode (e.g. images). Just write HTML. Browser standards have not degraded to the point that you need to write a web page differently than people wrote them fifteen years ago for it to look the same; a toolbox with a million complicated tools and one obvious screwdriver is not a toolbox that makes it very hard to unscrew screws. https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/