[danmur]

Conversely, if you're already familiar with something, it might make sense to you despite being poorly written and unconvincing.

[geraldbauer]

What argument(s) are unconvincing to you?

For more context let me add / point out the side-by-side samples (texti vs markdown vs latex vs wikipedia markup), see https://github.com/texti/texti.github.io/tree/master/samples using the Wikipedia article on markup as an real-world sample.