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Markdown is the Python of documents. As technology, and consequently technical writing increase in complexity, any reduction in barrier to access becomes increasingly necessary. The opposite of using markdown and python leads to bike shedding.

Personally, I always default to the simplest of tools. That's why I truly believe that anything meant for actual human use needs to have reasonable defaults. No "look at all the configs you can have", but a "let's get you what you need".