An ideological debate between collaborative vs dictatorial approaches, misses the point entirely. Markdown was a good effort, but I've been feeling for a while

An ideological debate between collaborative vs dictatorial approaches, misses the point entirely. Markdown was a good effort, but I've been feeling for a while now can do better. It's rather encouraging, that there are others attempting to design a new standard. Ideally it would be one that's easier to work with, and less idiosyncratic. ('new' of course, does not automatically equate to 'better' in this instance). Furthermore, developing this should not require anyone to 'be someone'. While it may help adoption, if it's great, then by it's own merits, it could have a decent chance of succeeding.