You’re reading too much into the AI generated prose. Just a little bit later they say about “why raw markdown”: “Every note app eventually dies. When it does,

You’re reading too much into the AI generated prose. Just a little bit later they say about “why raw markdown”: “Every note app eventually dies. When it does, your notes should survive. Plain .md files will outlive every app, every company, every format war.” Which doesn’t make a lot of sense — it’s still a format being rendered, otherwise I may as well use notepad.