I don't loathe it, but I don't like it, and I'm sad that WYSIWYG text-editing software is still so bad that a kludge like Markdown seems like a good idea to peo

I don't loathe it, but I don't like it, and I'm sad that WYSIWYG text-editing software is still so bad that a kludge like Markdown seems like a good idea to people. Markdown isn't optimized for people (it's harder to read than properly typeset text, and when writing it you pretty quickly have to remember syntax details, like what sort of brackets to use for links), and it's not optimized for computers, either (it's harder to parse than, say, XML).