User blog comment:Sarah Manley/New Editor Scheduled for Sitewide Release/@comment-3080486-20110906105242/@comment-1361074-20110907103609

That's only a reason to scrap the old RTE, not the default mediawiki editor. There is no good reason to not have that as an option since it has to be supported for monobook, and not using bunch of custom code on top of the default isn't hard to do. Even suggesting otherwise is a flat out lie, and there still hasn't been an answer to this user's question that isn't the same old load of bs about "consistency".