Looping between BaseCamp, Bear, Ulysses, IA Writer, WriteRoom and finally landed on Panda. Good to know the team won’t compromise the high standard - but frankly, I’d be more than happy to see they’re merged now.
And yes, Panda is a superb markdown editor. As an FYI based on your initial comment, you only get the .panda file extension if you use non-markdown elements such as embedded images. If you stick with basic (standard) markdown, you can save as regular .md files. Which, to me, positions Panda as a potential replacement for many of the editors you mentioned, including Typora. Regrettably, Panda doesn’t (yet?) support standard markdown images: e.g. . So the best “workaround” (in order to maintain an .md extension) is to use the Panda image link preview feature.