Comment by NobodyNada

> * auto numbered lists. NO!

> The problem is it's nearly impossible to keep your formatting right if you have a long item lists. I often write answers on s.o. where it's like "You have 3 issues. 1. several paragraphs 2. several more paragraphs and code samples. It would be absolute hell to have to figure out the formatting to make sure auto numbered item 2 stayed 2 and didn't become 1 in a new list

I think you and the author agree on this point: Markdown does have auto-numbered lists, and the author of the blog post believes that was a design mistake. If you write a Stack Overflow post with a list numbered 3, 2, 1, it will be rendered as 3, 4, 5.