I’m quick to complain when something doesn’t seem to work right, so I also try to be equally quick to praise the good stuff. So I’m here today to offer kudos to the developers on improving the Markdown editing so much that I have largely given up side-by-side editing completely–which is a wonderfully welcome change to my workflow for multiple reasons. Seriously, I think with the exception of table-heavy documents, the formatting in the editing view in DT 4.4 is now so darn good and helpful that I have barely been using the preview at all of late. Well done, folks!
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The kind words are very appreciated 
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Thanks for the kudos What exactly do you miss the most in case of tables?
At the risk of sounding cheeky… well… all of it. As near as I can tell, there isn’t much of any table formatting happening, the lone exception my eyes detect being that the vertical pipe characters are being rendered with a slightly different color.
I didn’t even know it was there. All the other formatting stuff just happened auto-magically when I updated to the latest version of the software. Now that I’ve enabled the option, my tables look great even in the markdown editing view. Thanks for calling this to my attention!
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Seconding the kudos 
to the MD improvements - and taking the opportunity to ask if it could be considered to implement, in a future release, collapsible headings 
Well, it’s at least already on our to-do list 
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Kudos from me too! I’ve turned off my style sheet as it feels irrelevant now!
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A follow-up question, now that I have table formatting enabled: what are the keystrokes for navigating while entering new data? For example, I’ve figured out that hitting tab does not move from one cell to the next while the arrow keys do, but I haven’t found any way to add a new row. With the tab formatting enabled, I can pretty easily work with the text in existing cells, but adding a new row at the bottom so far seems impossible. Thanks in advance.
The next release will improve Markdown table editing (e.g. navigating cells).
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? You just press Return and start typing, ending the cell with a pipe.
To be more clear, I got stuck while trying to edit an existing table that was already formatted and such. So it would never have occurred to me to enter another pipe in a cell that already has a pipe. But I’m happy to say that works. I can also add that one may place the cursor below the table bottom and type in rows normally, using pipe characters, after which DT will format the row when you’re done with it.
Nice!