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Sorry I have to disagree - being consistent with formatting throughout a post makes the most sense, backticks for computer input especially. Sure, they might be visually ugly, but they are semantic markup: under the hood they are being rendered as HTML <code></code> sections, which get treated differently in accessibility software. For example, screen readers may spell out code, rather than try to read it word-for-word. For someone using a reader, it would be confusing to have the same text treated differently because the first instance used semantic formatting and subsequent ones did not.
Note the list here is very specific to tags that were 100% removed, synonymised, or definitively declined. There are plenty more requests that are in a half-resolved state, aren't clear-cut, ask too many things, or are just discussions about tags without a clear 'request'. I'm not attempting to address those here.
