User blog comment:Kirkburn/VisualEditor - the past, present and future/@comment-13918697-20140606030944/@comment-126761-20140606172607

It's worth mentioning that the people who edit the help page are not the same people who code site features. If there are help pages that need work, please do send us a note, and we can take a look (obviously I can't speak for 452's experience).

A lot of anonymous visitors have absolutely no knowledge of wikitext, nor want to learn it. We do appreciate that many prefer it (including myself), but there are many others who do not. The goal of the VisualEditor is to let them edit too.

Regarding not being able to type wikitext directly - it's something that's on our radar and actively being discussed.