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I never disagreed with the Wikipedia lede. I only said its primary purpose isn't human-readability, and Markdown's is.
If a language's primary purpose is for a machine to read it, why does anyone use Python instead of C, when Python is typically CPython? Python is still used because it is more human readable.
If you were saying this about something like CBOR compared to JSON, I'd agree, but the primary purpose of most programming languages is to be human readable, and to, in a human readable format, define instructions and guardrails.