User blog comment:Sarah Manley/New Editor Scheduled for Sitewide Release/@comment-3080486-20110906105242/@comment-126761-20110906143816

It's come up a few times (see previous blog posts and comments thereof), but a quick summary:

The previous design made adding and improving features quite difficult as it was a maze of different items made at different times. But introducing a single design, it allows much more freedom to add options. Supporting both the new and old design is technically pretty difficult as they run two different sets of code (even just during development, it has proven complex to tweak both). I love and want to give you guys options, but this is a pretty difficult one.

I am reading all your feedback, and (at risk of becoming a monotonous repeater!) I am doing what I can to support everyone's edit style.