Maybe all those people who use plain text tooling for writing content, do it because... they prefer it over wysiwyg?
Confluence UX is horrible. There are a number of reasons for that, but just one is enough for me to reject it: you can't create or edit content in your own, personally optimized, automatable, text editing IDE. (And if you actually can, guess what? That's another argument against the usability of confluence, because I was either unable to find or unable to configure such a feature)
Obviously it's important for an average user to be able to edit content. But there are options that don't lock out the programmers who legitimately prefer plaintext editing.
Confluence UX is horrible. There are a number of reasons for that, but just one is enough for me to reject it: you can't create or edit content in your own, personally optimized, automatable, text editing IDE. (And if you actually can, guess what? That's another argument against the usability of confluence, because I was either unable to find or unable to configure such a feature)
Obviously it's important for an average user to be able to edit content. But there are options that don't lock out the programmers who legitimately prefer plaintext editing.