While Markdown isn&#x27;t difficult, it isn&#x27;t someone everybody is automatically aware of. This makes discovering and learning it even easier, both for newbie technical users and non-technical people that e.g. have to use GitHub to report issues, work on docs, ...<p>Yes, you might call it &quot;bells and whistles&quot; or &quot;polish&quot;, but that polish is one of the reasons that GitHub is where it is (instead of Bitbucket, despite Bitbucket having the better free offering etc). They&#x27;ve gotten were they are by being easy to get started.