[eevilspock]

> Which is a very long winded way of saying that you can use markdown for authoring actual content, and then use good old HTML for styling whatever else you want to.

Why does Markdown bother to have * and ** markup? Why not just use "<i>", "<b>", "<em>" or "<strong>"?

1. An admonition is no more "just styling" than is Markdown emphasis or strong markup, exclamation points at the end of a sentence or bullet lists (why not just use commas and "and"?). Admonitions are semantic.

2. HTML is not the only output rendering for Markdown.

[gorgoiler]

Because the majority of writing is text and lists. Admonitions don’t hit the sweet spot of requiring any extra-HTML markup. You can simply mark block level elements up with blocks.

You pretty much do this anyway in asciidoc, just with extra steps.