[tablespoon]

> This! I thought I was going insane, that nobody has mentioned this until now. "When did this start happening?", I thought. But looking into it, it seemed as if it had always been like this -- only of course it hadn't!

I feel like this worked sensibly until maybe 5 years ago.

[toyg]

Nah, much much older.

Some tools started to go that way in the '90s. About 15 years ago the "war on email format" ended with the victory of html, and already this behaviour was widespread - Word and Outlook were already working like that by then.

What has changed in the last decade or so is that the "paste as plain text" options are increasingly harder to find, and occasionally have been dropped altogether.

[tablespoon]

> Some tools started to go that way in the '90s. About 15 years ago the "war on email format" ended with the victory of html, and already this behaviour was widespread - Word and Outlook were already working like that by then.

You're probably right. Copy-pasting styles wasn't quite so annoying with RTF email, and it really only started getting infuriating for me when browsers and web apps started to try to do it.