Does anyone else think the complexity of the markup is an explanation declining editorship?

Fragment of a discussion from Talk:May 2011 Update

Hello,

indeed, when I got acquainted with the Wikipedia code, it seemed to me a little bit confusing. But is it not the same e. g. with VIM and others? No, the technical steps can be surmounted; and I quickly did. Once you have managed it, you enter a wide prairie ... --Hellsepp 18:52, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

Hellsepp18:52, 6 May 2011