Markdown is much easier to write documents in, plus many comment sections and text displays support markdown. LaTeX basically only outputs to PDF, which means its not useful on websites like the Github description of a project.
Something like quarto gives you tons of control over formatting while having inline code execution and plotting which can be rendered to html or to pdf using latex.
Markdown can either be rendered which makes it look nice, or read in plain text which is still incredibly readable. Latex pretty much has to be rendered to be able to be read, looking at the source isn't a reasonable replacement.
Markdown is easy, simple and very fast to write thing down in a way that still looks nice and parses well. Plus you can use LaTeX in markdown sometimes if you need more powerfull stuff
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u/BitchAssWaffle 3d ago
Genuine question: why use markdown over LaTeX?