[healsjnr1]

It's not necessarily WYSIWYG that is the problem. It's auto formatting markdowns in an editor.

I've never seen this done well. You constantly end up fighting the formatting. You end up having to learn obscures combinations of key strokes to make it do what you want. Or you just give up and format the text after you've written it all.

That to me is a real loss. I highly value being able to format on the fly.