Comment by kodoman

The idea was minor a minor mode not to modify markdown mode it's self. You have a point on export from org mode to md or html or whatever but my issue with these has been that MD never rendered the way I wanted it to (simply as possible) and I probably did not try hard enough to play around with the rendering parameters.

The thing I have found more and more is separate from the actual rendering format is wanting org structures that are simpler to manipulate pragmatically I know that one could can simply manipulate as they would any text-buffer but that can be a little convoluted.

All that is to say my original proposal was probably hasty and poor and it sounds like you know org inside and out and I don't so although I use emacs heavily and love it I sort of fell out love with org mode and having this conversation it seems like I probably need to go and read up on it a lot more in light of all of this thank you.