It seems sort of odd to have an “export to markdown” command. Markdown is nice… because it is sort of like a normal markup language, but easier to write, right? But exporting is specifically the one case where markdown’s strength doesn’t matter. The computer can type, like, real fast and can output verbose and niche syntax easily.

Why not export to the best format, LaTeX? I don’t think anyone could argue that Markdown is better than LaTeX as long as you don’t actually have to write it.