For what most people are doing with static site generators (blogging) going "raw" HTML is honestly not a bad choice. Most usage of Markdown is just to avoid wri

For what most people are doing with static site generators (blogging) going "raw" HTML is honestly not a bad choice. Most usage of Markdown is just to avoid writing tags. It's not a whole lot more work to write `<em>foo</em>` instead of `_foo_`. HTML was meant to be hand-authored, not a compilation target. It's like if people forgot you can still cook rice without a rice cooker.