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I have mixed feelings about this, I definitely miss some of the playfulness of years long gone.

But a simile comes to mind: The whizz-bang interfaces were like illuminated manuscripts. Beautiful. Works of art. Literal human artistic treasures.

But when I’m reading an email, I do not need dragons curled around drop caps.



I would pay for that feature. With AI scanning the paragraph text, we might even be able to get relevant illumination images generated on the fly. I want this now, whereas five minutes ago I had never thought of it.


"But when I’m reading an email, I do not need dragons curled around drop caps."

I might actually bother to read such an email.


Now all we need is a Markdown dialect supporting illumination.




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