User blog comment:JustLeafy/The editors: Advantages and Disadvantages/@comment-5558012-20170326163854/@comment-5558012-20170402032303

I had to play around with the subject a little considering you can't edit portable infoboxes with the visual tab of Classic RTE and I remove the templates dropdown in my personal styling.

From what I've experienced when editing non-PIs is that the parameters are on separate lines in source appearing in the order they do in the template. If you fill out say half the parameters they would be in order on new lines (on source tab), but when you come back to fill out the rest they would be in order after the other parameters and the first would be on the same line as the last added parameter of the previous edit with the remainder on new lines.

In terms of the source user, the Classic RTE makes templates more obvious in text/code, however, the VisualEditor source editor guarantees consistency regardless of the number of edits to the template. Personally consistency is nice but hunting for a template or seeing long lists of parameters on one line isn't a great user experience.

I 99% of the time don't use the Visual tab (I use a script defaulting to the Source tab) but for some reason I've stuck with the Classic editor and never changed preferences for just the Source editor.