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To be fair, the article literally links to that and mentions it as a possible solution.

Does anyone remember Creole wiki markup? It was born in a time when each wiki created its own syntax. Creole should become the standard for wikis, but it never got traction. I fear that it will be the same with commonmark.

Probably would have worked better if they were allowed to call it "Standard Markdown" or had been able to get Gruber aboard.

This kind of reminds me of the XKCD[0] Standards comic strip. I love writing initial documentation in Markdown because I basically just punch out a text file with line breaks separating my sections/headers and add in some of the markup quickly after I get my content written.

It really is annoying though when I have to be careful about a convention that I'm using if I'm putting a README in BitBucket vs GitHub vs whatever else. Generally, if I'm just sticking to headers, lists, and quotes, I have no problem and everything works and I don't pay it another thought.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/927