I just continue to be upset that they made <strong> five characters long :/. Why couldn't they have gone with <s>? (And <e> instead of <em>, though that's a lot

I just continue to be upset that they made <strong> five characters long :/. Why couldn't they have gone with <s>? (And <e> instead of <em>, though that's a lot less problematic.) I use <strong> all over the place--though, after I was recently pointed at some of the new retconned HTML5 documentation, I did now wonder if some of my uses "should be" <b>; but, now I see the notes about <mark>, and I probably was wanting that one?...--and it makes HTML really annoying as a "markup" language as it causes massive discontinuities in the text I am reading/editing just to add some better inflection.