Comment by Wowfunhappy

Imagine if you were authoring and/or editing prose directly in html, as opposed to using some CMS. You're using your writing brain, not your coding brain. You don't want to think about code.

It's still a little annoying to put <p> before each paragraph, but not by that much. By contrast, once you start adding closing tags, you're much closer to computer code.

I'm not sure if that makes sense but it's the way I think about it.