What’s more frustrating, writing in HTML or writing in a more concise format and having to maintain some build pipeline?
I guess the answer depends on many factors; personal preferences and also the project’s context play a big role; personally I’m surprised how often I choose <em>HTML</em>.
Markdown is probably a happy medium - markdown itself looks pretty much like normal writing in usenet or email, just formatted visually, and the 'build pipeline' is something like "markdown foo.md > foo.html"
I guess the answer depends on many factors; personal preferences and also the project’s context play a big role; personally I’m surprised how often I choose <em>HTML</em>.