I got to the bottom and saw that the author thinks TeX is not only a viable alternative to Markdown in the spaces Markdown is heavily used, but is their favorit

I got to the bottom and saw that the author thinks TeX is not only a viable alternative to Markdown in the spaces Markdown is heavily used, but is their favorite such "alternative". And so anyway, despite nodding along with a few arguments above that point, I have concluded that the author and I are looking for extremely different things out of our text markup languages. I want just about as far from TeX as possible - at that point, I may as well just write README.txt's in plain text that resembles Markdown or GemText, but in a less formal manner. At least it'll look the same level of good/bad/whatever in vim as it will when dumped into an HTML file, or a PDF, or whatever. With TeX, I basically have to render the document for it to be readable.