> It's essentially the opposite of what Markdown accomplished, which was taking a bunch of human conventions which were developed mostly out of ease of use (tab

> It's essentially the opposite of what Markdown accomplished, which was taking a bunch of human conventions which were developed mostly out of ease of use (table formatting being the one which doesn't work well IMO) and adapting them so they can be parsed into nice text. That comes at the cost of only having a few hardcoded features and not allowing extensions, making it hard or impossible to write anything non-trivial.