Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33168089-20170821015513/@comment-32094204-20170823223637

yes. The software for editing tools would require significant rewrite. in other words, gradual.

For example, in fact, the visual editor on Wikipedia (not wikia) took a few years to write. Source code editing was a pain in the butt and it took a while for the Wikimedia Foundation to produce it.