[candiddevmike]

You hate reading unrendered markdown? I've looked at markdown so much that my brain renders it in my head.

[mdeeks]

URL are particularly egregious. In rich text it is just a word with a blue highlight or underline. In markdown my sentence with a [link](https://myfavorite.site.com/article/blah/whatever/something....) looks like this.

[jen20]

Or, preferably, a [link][1].

[1]: https://whatever.com