User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The future of Chat/@comment-28792907-20200805193712/@comment-25356303-20200805194502

This is my opinion as an editor and administrator: the MediaWiki upgrade has been everything I've been asking for since 2014. Modernizing and modularizing the codebase such that the Forums (now Discussions) will no longer clutter up maintenance lists meant for articles, and Message Walls and Article Comments will become equally untethered from the core MediaWiki platform, means that the system will be more robust and capable of future upgrades than it ever could be now. This is way more significant than I'm making it sound.

There are plenty of editor-centric tools added with the UCP too, though. The one I'm most excited for is a regex-enabled find+replace tool built into the editor itself. I can't express how useful such things are. Not having a god-awful, buggy mess of a VisualEditor anymore will perhaps be the greatest change here. I spend an irritating amount of time every week fixing formatting issues caused by VE. This will not be a problem with the unified editor. A more streamlined and advanced Recent Changes feature will also substantially improve the ability of editors to review edits in a consistent and nuanced way.

I understand that it's natural to feel as though change isn't good, but there are a lot of good reasons for the UCP and they're going to continue to apply in the future.