User blog comment:Ducksoup/The Future of Infoboxes on Wikia/@comment-1295676-20150821232411/@comment-1295676-20150822010748

Okay, I don't know code, so if you say that the portable infoboxes are better from a developer standpoint, I will take your word for it.

That said, the issue as I see it is that, for the non-developers, setting up the portable infoboxes is a lot of work for no visible gain. Given the issues that are present as of this posting, for a lot of people the portable infoboxes are going to seem less useful than the templates they have already.

I agree that better help articles/tutorials should be a short-term priority to mitigate what is at the moment a difficult learning curve. I understand that the portable infoboxes need to be tested in order to get the kinks ironed out, but for the time being I think the portable infoboxes are going to be a hard sell.