Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37380939-20200810025747/@comment-1038387-20200810093740

That's actionable.

None of the people clamoring for wikitext is that thorough, so their feedback is not actionable.

Just like you, I have no complete view of their systems (or your knowledge of coding in general) so I'll just amend my "if they could, they'd have done it" to "if they thought it was sustainable in the long term, they'd have done it". I'd love more advanced markup that could maybe emulate wikitext, or parse wikitext in special boxes, but I'm not holding hope for actual in-line wikitext.