Stupid people have been ruining things for smart people since the dawn of mankind, although smart people have been taking advantage of stupid people since the beginning too, so it's a two way street
The styling tags will stay for the time being, although I might take a couple out (size for example). Few people seem to use any tags though, and the people that do screw it up.
One last note to those reading this. I've noticed styling tags don't always seem to work even when used correctly. It's a bug in the new comment module that I'm looking into.