User blog comment:BertH/New VisualEditor now available in Labs/@comment-15278555-20131209185749/@comment-4531192-20131210204353

Not everything can be tested in the lab (no pun intended); you have to test on a large scale, and that is the reason why the new VE is lister under Labs in Special:WikiFeatures.

I do agree with most of what you said about Wikipedia's butchered launch of the new editor though. And, if I'm not mistaken, the old VE will eventually be replaced by the new one on Wikia. But one also has to recognize that Wikia's launch of the new VE has been much more successful (or much less of a disaster, depending on how you look at it) than Wikipedia's.