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> tags have the same visual weight as the text they're delimiting

IMO this issue should and can be easily solved by editor/viewer by rendering tags with lower contrast.

[robinsonb5]

Yes, that's a perfectly viable workaround, but it's still a band-aid that requires expending resources that wouldn't need to be spent if the markup method had been better chosen for readability. (To be specific, I believe the angle-brackets are the main culprit.)