I’d also love it if markdown links were counted as backlinks.
I would be VERY useful for my workflow.
I frequently draft documents in bear which I then copy as markdown and paste in other apps for the final output. However I also use a lot of wiki links with aliases/modified anchor texts. As this is not standard markdown I have to manually change each wiki link that has an alias to show only the anchor text in the output document. Using wiki links would change that as its standard markdown meaning that the anchor text (equivalent to wiki links aliases) would be rendered in the final output without me having to manually edit the output document.