Thank you very much for your long reply :)
You've put lots of your time and knowledge into the product. It is only fair of us that we test it and use it with an open mind. I am looking forward to the growth of ladder.net very much.
Yes, the editor (and markdown) needs some rethinking. I wouldn't mind having wordpress like editor here. The other thing is that you can't and (won't) use style sheets of steemit.com. Front end looks should be as content / markdown agnostic as possible. Again the parallel with wordpress and themes...
Keep up the good work.
Ps: I am a developer too and I understand your position. OK, I live in a different world (Oracle, PL/SQL stuff :) ).