God, the hours I've seen co-workers waste, trying to eliminate some errant space in a rich-text-editor-generated hyperlink, by pressing a random sequence of rich-text buttons. A lot of times, they just go straight to the raw HTML to fix things...and if you're already doing that, you're capable of learning Markdown (let's skip the discussion of why editing raw HTML can be even more disastrous).
Kudos to you for being eager to learn new skills...I'm an engineer and a self-taught web dev I wish someone had forced me to learn Markdown much earlier than I had.
Nevertheless, now that it is done, I hope the new system works well for you. Maybe your team gets used to git for version control in other areas of work, too, which would be a huge win and ultimately prove me wrong ;-)