I noticed a bug which I thought was related to ox-hugo but the maintainer recommended I mention it here instead as it's likely related to the org-element library.

My report: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/ox-hugo/issues/562

As a quick summary: The following list item is improperly exported to org mode (org-md-export-as-markdown). The first snippet is in org-mode and the second is the exported markdown: