Thanks, @AmberV_3338G8eG .
Yes, what I was hoping for in my post on a “Markdown mode” for Scrivener 4 is essentially something that allows writing in Markdown (or possibly L&L’s new type-styling system in The New Smaller App) without having to manually click and set styles, which is laborious and error-prone. Also, some degree of on-screen styling would be helpful to differentiate valid Markdown (e.g., footnotes, figures, equations, code) from regular text. Some elements might be rendered even more completely (e.g., tables).
I don’t think Scrivener should change completely to become a Markdown “zenware,” like you put it in the linked post. Scrivener should remain Scrivener! with all its amazing tools and workflows. But to be able to write in Markdown, not get lost in fonts and styles during writing (leaving that for the Compile step), and integrating with Quarto/Pandoc processing would be a huge boon.