I agree with you and that's a negative with Asciidoc, but it uses it just for fringe features that are unnecessary most of the times and also that are completely missing in Markdown, so you can easily ignore them and this is no reason for you to be angry at Asciidoc. I wish Asciidoc was slightly simpler but nothing is perfect.
By the way, wikitext is also "English-centric" by that same criteria and you seem to like it.
Wikitext offers compatibility in exchange for the drawback, I keep saying
Wikitext is not parseable. I've posted a bunch of notes here maybe 2 months ago highlighting how absurdly horrible it is. There is no spec but even if there was one it would be unimplementable. There is only one parser: the one that powers Wikipedia, it's a mixmash of cursed PHP that is not portable. I don't know how you can think that is compatible with anything.
It's compatible with Wikipedia and most other wikis on the web.
Markdown is cool, but a NIP that just uses nostr to back up and synchronize articles across MediaWiki instances seems like it would be better than an asciidoc wiki platform that isn't cross-compatible
I wouldn't be against that if you want to do it, but it would be a completely different thing than NIP-54.
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