So you need to round-trip it through a Web site? Wow, convenient.

It's always been very convenient for me since that's where I do most of my readme reading.

The IDE that I use most of the time also renders markdown.

Why are you surprised that the easiest way to view a markup format for generating HTML is on the web?

I was going to call out that out as a strawman, knowing that it doesn't meet the classic definition. Let me look up what's it's called when you bury a not-agreed-with assertion in a question that requires the recipient to agree with it...

Ah, so that's the definition of a "loaded question." Thanks for the fallacy!

"Loaded Question: A loaded question contains an assumption that may or may not be true or agreed upon. It's designed to trap the respondent into confirming a premise they might not agree with, regardless of their answer.

Complex Question Fallacy (or plurium interrogationum): This is a logical fallacy where the question presumes the truth of something that may be false or unproven. Answering it directly implies agreement with that presupposition."

What's there to disagree with? This is a fact.

Github mercifully supports README.rst.