User blog comment:Sarah Manley/A Facelift for the Edit Page/@comment-1997905-20110414013732

A few things that came up on IRC that are highly important and weren't mentioned here: Just from those two points, I'd like to go down as completely opposed to this. I'd also like to go down as saying that many other users won't like this either - and they will likely raise a big stink about it. For the future, be aware that you don't have to sacrifice the abilities of the technically apt editors to make things easier for the new editors - I'm sure the dev team is more than capable of keeping the standard MW editor completely separate from this new RTE.
 * No more MW editor. This editor is all you get.
 * No more MediaWiki:Newarticletext, at least at this time. It won't display with this new editor.

Edit (from above reply): Speaking with Sannse directly in IRC, we came to the conclusion that there's a swirly of miscommunication between the staff and users about this - in short, there shouldn't be too much change, provided what's been promised rolls out the way it's been promised. It's not quite finished yet, decisions are still being made. It's complicated to explain and I'm short on time at this very moment, I can explain more later.