If anyone is interested, I think part of the issue with why inline code formatting is so hard is related to these two Chromium bugs:

- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608393

- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=608162

If you star/comment on them to increase the understanding for Chrome's team that they are incredibly frustrating that would be amazing!