What is CSV?
CSV is the least glamorous and most durable data format there is - rows of values separated by commas, readable by every spreadsheet and database ever written. Its subtleties are all about quoting: a value containing a comma has to be wrapped, and a quote inside that has to be doubled.
What is MD?
A Markdown table is the one people actually write by hand: pipes between the cells, a row of dashes under the header. GitHub, docs sites and half the world's READMEs render them, and their one real subtlety is that a pipe inside a code span is text, not a column break.