For sure. I'd call it an excellent bad markup language. I use LogSeq daily and as a practical matter I much prefer Markdown to, say, Evernote's WYSIWYG approach, which was more of a pain to use and left me with notes so broken that they are impossible to fix. Or to this author's theoretically better system HTML, because it's more of a pain to write. Basically Markdown cares about formatting about as much as I do, which is barely.

I'll note this tension has a long history in CS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better

And I think it has a lot to do with a very particular notion of good, which is something like "conceptually pleasing to someone who has mastered the space".