I can see your point as well (always nice in a discussion to understand each others points),

the thing is that I believe in simplicity, as opposed to 'featuritis'. In my opinion your proposal is in the grey area inbetween.

I don't agree that just adding a few tags won't increase complexity of this site:

• Adding other features might become more complex, because you have to take into account more information. Can't think of an example right now, but I hope the scenario is clear
• These tags might be exploitable in cross site scripting. For instance if the <del>-tag could be used to execute code on your computer, not allowing this tag would be better security-wise. Although the chances for this happening are very small, some browsers have a terrible track record in this field.

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