No, not at all.

vscode requires downloading all the plugins on top, which is bothersome

wordpad is all-included on its own

People using markdown are probably also using vscode. It’s not like vscode couldn’t come bundled with markdown support if it doesn’t already.

VSCode needs Electron which is too big IMO. It's also a specialised code editor instead of a general text editor, with features like builtin terminal and traditional menus instead of ribbons.

Isn’t notepad now react?

I mean, Microsoft is already using WebView and web technologies in Windows at this point. I agree electron is inefficient, but it's not particularly egregious when compared to what they're already doing

I was mostly meaning the Wordpad name, not the original incantation of the tool... the only legacy I might support if it was Wordpad as a markdown editor, would be to import RTF/Doc files only supporting what can cleanly adapt to markdown syntax support...

Then I'd probably have a decent print to pdf function as part of it.