User blog comment:BertH/Wikia's evolution continues with VisualEditor/@comment-3441771-20131015093552/@comment-5275700-20131015215817

Thanks for the feedback, Starfleet. On the topic of your first section, I don't think it's fair to assume that someone who's not using wikitext can't possibly add good content to an article or to a wiki. And we all care about quality content on Wikia, that's what brings the readers and keeps them coming back.

Wikitext support is coming (as noted in the Forum thread), but next we're focusing on media functions. Lots more still to come, and please keep letting us know what you think as things move forward.

To answer your major question, the "beta" user preference that's available right now will disable VisualEditor for you on any community that has it, and you won't need to use the drop-down on the edit menu. Eventually we'll just combine that preference with the existing "Visual" user preference so there's only one.