Quite frankly I was happy with the arbitrary html part more often than it annoyed me. E.g. when I had to add a table that was just slightly out of markdowns com

Quite frankly I was happy with the arbitrary html part more often than it annoyed me. E.g. when I had to add a table that was just slightly out of markdowns comfort zone (merged cells). Those who read my readmes were always happy with the content and never complaines about the html.