> However, hiding emphasis and macro markers can make editing text at
> the boundaries of emphasized text non-intuitive, which I can imagine
> might frustrate some new users, so that should probably be carefully
> considered.

+1e6

Interestingly, hiding emphasis and macro markers are the two changes
that get the *less* votes, so we probably won't change these.

Thank you! Hiding those will somehow take away the "Org-ness" in my humble opinion :)