Text in the WYSIWYG editor is automatically styled per markdown settings when using the same special characters that are traditionally used to style text in markdown. Thus, I cannot place underscores, asterisks or double asterisks around text without the text converting to italics or bold (for double asterisks). Similarly, using hash(es) with a space at the beginning of a line of text then converts that text to a heading. The only way around this at the moment is setting that text as code or in a code block. While keyboard shortcuts for styling text is great and expected in the WYSIWYG, they and the editing tools should be the only way to do so. Markdown editing should be exclusive to the markdown editor.