Personally I think Markdown got _really_ popular not because it is easier to write but because it is easier to read.
It’s kind of a huge deal that I can give a Markdown file of plain text content to somebody non-technical and they aren’t overwhelmed by it in raw form.
It’s kind of a huge deal that I can give a Markdown file of plain text content to somebody non-technical and they aren’t overwhelmed by it in raw form.
HTML fails that same test.