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It's somewhat ok in our situation though because the HTML we're dealing with was generated from Markdown rather than typed by people so it's well structured and the same each time.
The code is very not fun to read though, regex is just impossible gibberish.
I mean, it's not that bad if you've spent far far too long on regex101.com...
I guess I'm one of the few weirdos who actually likes messing around with multiple capture groups and complex patterns.