From my Writeas Community Interview in May 2020:

I started an online magazine four years ago originally on WordPress. I thought I knew something about web development, but honestly I did not. It ended up becoming a fixation on trying to make something technically different from what I’d seen done with WordPress, which detracted heavily from my Editorial duties over the years. I’m on the OCD spectrum so I just couldn’t let it go. I spent thousands of hours fiddling with different themes and formatting within those themes, and what I ended up with was a mess. I would make changes that would break old posts, so I’d go back and fix those, only to make more changes days/weeks/months later and have to go back again. I’d known vaguely about Markdown, but it wasn’t until it was mentioned in the WordPress dev Slack that I really considered it seriously as a way out of what I’d been doing. I realized that its inherit limitations were actually very good for me – that I needed a limited system to constrain my workflow to keep myself on task. Finally, in late-2018, I started to convert our old content to Markdown and essentially haven’t looked back since.