At least an option to disable this would be nice. If I am exporting the plain text transcript of a video (whether hitting "Copy to Clipboard" or "Export"), it is very annoying that special characters are escaped with HTML syntax (such as " instead of quotation marks, & for ampersand, etc).
This means I have to always remember to run a macro I've created in Notepad++ to fix it every time I export a file, and if I forget, it really screws up the transcript/subtitles for people.