Presumably you would also get distracted by links ‘hidden’ in [text](URL) constructs too @Joe_Kaczmarski ? (It may interest you to know that the ‘MD’ view isn’t completely raw: there are many hidden - for reasons in this megathread: Allow non-outline (freeform) text)
Have either of you tried Obsisian? I personally quite like their raw markdown / rendered markdown (non-interactive) views, which are toggled with ctrl+e.