I know, right? Org-mode is soooo much more practical. imenu works great, sparse-trees are awesome, you can edit pretty much any part¹ in an indirect buffer and all. These days I try to consume anything that can be fit into an outline, in org-mode - hackernews², reddit³, slack⁴, jira boards and tickets⁵, wiktionary entries⁶, etc.

Fun anecdote - I once needed to sort some nested items in a big yaml file. After spending three minutes trying to understand sort-regexp-fields (or some other function), I cheated - I ran org-mode, and then org-sort and then went back to yaml-mode. So stupid, yet so brilliant. Why the heck would I ever want to use "first-class IDE" or "intuitive, plebeian editor" if Emacs has anything I could possibly imagine? Right at my fingertips.

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¹ https://github.com/agzam/org-edit-indirect.el

² https://github.com/thanhvg/emacs-hnreader/

³ https://github.com/thanhvg/emacs-reddigg

⁴ https://github.com/agzam/slacko.el

⁵ https://github.com/agzam/go-jira.el

⁶ https://github.com/agzam/wiktionary-bro.el

> When my Emacs opens a markdown file it immediately converts it into OrgMode format.

I want that. Can you give some details?

A search finds modeverv/markdown-to-org which looks 80% there but activates based on a yank or converting an already loaded markdown buffer. Perhaps it can be made to apply on opening a .md file.