What is the benefit of learning HTML

Answer 1

you can distinguish tags and use them appropriately and efficiently

some people use divs for everything when a better tag exists

Also, markup language is used a lot for different things such as UI and RSS feeds so if you're familiar with HTML you can easily transfer the skill.

Finally, you can't escape HTML if you're doing web development; maybe backend is an exception, but it's rare to find a strict backend-only web dev these days

Answer 2

Imo some minimal knowledge is necessasry in today's day and age, even if u are not a developer. Not only u can use it on many platforms to make something pretty (like styled emails or smth), but also faking stuff :P if u know what I mean.

As far as development goes, its very useful. Things like web scraping, plugins, web development, there is a tonne of uses. But there is no need to go too in depth on it and memorise every single thing. Rarely anyone actually writes a lot of HTML by hand anymore.