i am probably the wrong person to respond because the reason i prefer a plain text editor is that that's what i have been using for all my work until now.
i am not yet there in the process, but i won't be using plain text/markdown just for the first draft.
when i get back that word documents with comments from the editor, i'll look at that like a read-only copy, and actually make the required edits in that same plain text editor.
while it may be easier to make edits right in place in the word document, it is easier (for me at least) to keep a history of changes with plain text documents.
otherwise i'd agree with you. if you are going to end up editing in word, may as well start with editing in word. for me the goal is to avoid using word/libreoffice at all.
i am not yet there in the process, but i won't be using plain text/markdown just for the first draft.
when i get back that word documents with comments from the editor, i'll look at that like a read-only copy, and actually make the required edits in that same plain text editor.
while it may be easier to make edits right in place in the word document, it is easier (for me at least) to keep a history of changes with plain text documents.
otherwise i'd agree with you. if you are going to end up editing in word, may as well start with editing in word. for me the goal is to avoid using word/libreoffice at all.