[kilociraptor]

>> It should be readable, as a complete document, in its existing text form without any transformation.

> Is this _needed_, or is this nice to have?

It's kind of the ur usecase of markup languages. Without this property WYSIWYG is significantly better.

[asicsp]

I like markup over WYSIWYG because I can use my preferred text editor, can be version controlled, reused in multiple places (reddit, github, etc).

I like that the markup I use (Markdown) is readable as is, but I wouldn't mind losing a bit of readability for more features.