User blog comment:BertH/Wikia's evolution continues with VisualEditor/@comment-4189499-20131015070546/@comment-4189499-20131015070952

Also, one of the benefits of the old visual editor was that after a certain point, users were forced to go into source to do more complicated things, thereby introducing them to the more advanced form of editing. With this editor, users would have no reason to advance and learn wikitext and HTML and CSS and stuff to help make the page just that much better because they will just be relying on the tools already given in the visual editor.