I am still not getting the point or we are talking past each other. When I am providing information for humans, I CAN go with semantic HTML (that 9kB Markdown

I am still not getting the point or we are talking past each other. When I am providing information for humans, I CAN go with semantic HTML (that 9kB Markdown becoming maybe 10KB semantic HTML). I can also go with "framework" layers and turn that into a massive 1MB crap which when rendered by the end user's browser maybe shows most of my content plus ads plus supply chain attacks I unintentionally pulled through with one of the "framework" layers, ahem, nodeJS, ahem. When I am providing data for both humans and AI agents, XML and other formal data formats might be good choices. If the data happens to be mostly text, then HTML and Markdown both work, but HTML is easier to compose (with programs). If you don't need composition at all, markdown or plain text are obviously easier to hand-craft. Only in the last scenario, where you don't need to combine information and are directly writing snippets of text, Markdown comes out as a decent option. I honestly don't have a clue how often that happens in practice. Maybe for casual writers (which may be a big market that I am blind to)? As soon as I want to put in a plain table in the data, Markdown gets in the way.