Hello,
I just made an account on here to chime in and say that I also think this type of feature is very important!
The print (to PDF) doesn’t currently work well with threads that contain code blocks as they don’t wrap or extend, so things end up cropped.
I think a reliable and fairly easy way to get content out from discourse, for instance for archiving purposes, is really important.
Another point of consideration: I participate on a forum that has just consolidated many users from a mailing list that closed down – during the transition discussions of whether to keep the mailing list active or switch over entirely to the forum, a member who is blind said that they wouldn’t be able to participate
on the forum due to a lack of support for text-based browsers. I think a proper raw mode, with author attribution and all threads would work toward greater inclusion.