> We have made something simple unnecessarily complicated.
Oh, but Markdown isn’t simple. Easy it is, certainly, but simple it isn’t because of one feature: being able to embed HTML. So the semantics of Markdown subsumes the semantics of HTML, which has a _huge_ spec.
What one’d like in many cases would be a Markdown-without-HTML-embedding. But that’s no longer Markdown.
Oh, but Markdown isn’t simple. Easy it is, certainly, but simple it isn’t because of one feature: being able to embed HTML. So the semantics of Markdown subsumes the semantics of HTML, which has a _huge_ spec.
What one’d like in many cases would be a Markdown-without-HTML-embedding. But that’s no longer Markdown.