Comment by afavour

Basic HTML really isn’t a big step up from Markdown though, and no one was complaining about that. In some instances it’s simpler even. I often forget the exact syntax for a table in Markdown, by comparison <table>, <tr> and <td> are easy to remember. All of the major parts of Markdown are pretty easy, <h1>, <strong>, etc etc. It was written with human authorship in mind.

Typing out <p> for every paragraph is annoying, for sure. But a converter that switches out \r\n\r\n for a new paragraph would be a reasonable middle ground IMO.