User blog comment:BertH/Wikia's evolution continues with VisualEditor/@comment-11733175-20131015211237

I have a couple a concerns with the release of this:
 * Will there be an option to turn off or place preference on the source editor in preferences? Call me lazy, but it's inconvinient to open a menu to get to source editing. The menu has also been known to break with js errors, such as when mw-collapsible was updated to fix memory leaks and then fixed to remove the js errors.
 * Someone below has noted wikitext is not recognised by the visual editor. No doubt this has already been brought up on wikipedia - are there any plans to change this at a core level?

I completely disagree that this is something that should be disabled. Attracting new editors is hard, even for big wikis and I'd take every chance to give them any advantage available. I'm very interested to see how wikis that have disabled RTE take this new version, such as Wookieepedia and Tardis Wiki.