User blog comment:Ducksoup/Visual Editor Gets an Update/@comment-4189499-20150318233656/@comment-4189499-20150319095238

Oh, well that's not very helpful then. If people want to use wikitext and start using wikitext, just let them use wikitext! It takes a lot less typing to write, for example, Help:Links than it does to write the two opening brackets, wait for a link editor to load, then type in what you want, and then hit ok, and then wait for the link editor to apply the change, and only then continue editing. It's a huge interruption to the workflow, especially as it only takes a couple of keystrokes after the [[ to access most page names a person would want thanks to link suggest. It is also infinitely easier to just type  rather than type the opening braces, wait for the template editor to load, search for the template, add in the parameters, hit ok, and then wait for the editor to apply the changes, and using the wikitext means that the user won't have to interupt their work flow if they don't want to. If they're not comfortable using the wikitext, then they can still add stuff the old way, but let us ease new users into the wiki world by allowing proper wikitext to be used, allowing the user to get used to it in a safe, otherwise WYSIWYG environment before transitioning further into proper source editors.

Also, it would massively simplify our wiki's help pages. It's much easier to just tell people to write than to go through a whole step-by-step process on how to use the template editor. The minimisation of work on help pages may possibly be one of the primary reasons I'm going on about this :P