I agree on the own text format. It just seems needlessly complicated without really offering benefits.
The argument of focusing on text over styling is a fair one, but it would also have been easy to only support a subset of HTML/CSS.
If one has to create a new format for Hypertext, it should however do more than HTML does and really innovate on the concept. That would have been interesting, to make it for example more semantically structured and thus open new possibilities or include ideas from other Hypertext projects like Xanadu.
As it stands, I would prefer markdown or just plain html as well.
The argument of focusing on text over styling is a fair one, but it would also have been easy to only support a subset of HTML/CSS.
If one has to create a new format for Hypertext, it should however do more than HTML does and really innovate on the concept. That would have been interesting, to make it for example more semantically structured and thus open new possibilities or include ideas from other Hypertext projects like Xanadu.
As it stands, I would prefer markdown or just plain html as well.