@oantolin If that would actually be the reason, then the #orgmode community would have changed its name but embraced the idea. Didn't happen.
I personally do find the name helpful because the main target group is not Org users but normal users, who do know what "Markdown" is and they get some idea transfer to "Orgdown" because of "down".
Nobody I've came across ever said that "Markdown" is negative because of "down".
To me, "down" symbolizes a "simpler version syntax" according to Lightweight Markup Language (LML) in contrast to complex markup languages like HTML, tex, ...
That said: as long as the org community does not even start to embrace the idea, its name choice is more than irrelevant.
I started #orgdown not as a personal project in the sense that it stays this way. I was hoping for the community to take it away from me and follow the basic idea such that OD is becoming a tool-independent and much better alternative to #Markdown as explained on https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/