I fell in love with Markdown in the early 2010s. My team at work didn't have a corporate wiki, and the only alternative to documentation was network shares and non-searchable folder hierarchies. I installed Dokuwiki, and its editing is all markdown.
The alternative became Confluence, which is now a pretty decent product(for the end user, I can't speak to operating it).
But in 2013, the editor was terrible. WYSIWYG was broken and non-deterministic. You never knew how it was going to try to "intelligently" format your next press of the enter key, or bullet list or table. There was no visual cue on the work it was doing for you.
Markdown is very clear, if limited: There is no ambiguity on how it will format a page.
I will say, I think there are tools that provide WYSIWYG composers that store data in Markdown backend, giving the benefits of both easy editing, and a stable, human-editable source format.
The alternative became Confluence, which is now a pretty decent product(for the end user, I can't speak to operating it).
But in 2013, the editor was terrible. WYSIWYG was broken and non-deterministic. You never knew how it was going to try to "intelligently" format your next press of the enter key, or bullet list or table. There was no visual cue on the work it was doing for you.
Markdown is very clear, if limited: There is no ambiguity on how it will format a page.
I will say, I think there are tools that provide WYSIWYG composers that store data in Markdown backend, giving the benefits of both easy editing, and a stable, human-editable source format.