That seems completely unfounded to me. WYSIWYG editors can be extremely bad … but millions of people use WYSIWYG editors all the time and wouldn’t ever think of exchanging them for plaintext editors with Markdown or something like that.
You comment seems completely disconnected from any semblance of reality.
I haven’t ever heard anyone comment on how enjoyable Word is to use.
Word can't even auto-format plain text input predictably. If you try anything at all complex involving spacing our outline formats it gets completely turned around.
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"team's top and only priority"
I guess they need to learn how to be efficient if they need several weeks to add a checkbox to change one setting
My (entirely speculation) suspicion is that the old editor had a lot of tech debt, that the team was excited to delete, and since they're now having to put it back, having to make it compatible with the new editor.
The larger a product is, and the more people involved, the more steps and phases are needed to keep everything running smoothly. A dev shop with fewer people can be more efficient because there's less communication overhead, individuals wear more hats. But it doesn't scale.
It's also an artifact of Agile, SCRUM especially. If you keep a fungible pool of devs who can be redirected on a weekly basis, they don't necessarily have knowledge or expertise in the area of code they're working on, so there needs to be extra investigation time, sync on technical details, and more QA to cover omissions and unwanted interactions from lack of total knowledge. Component ownership is less susceptible to this but you lose some agility as dev fungibility is reduced.
(If a feature / deploy rollback itself isn't possible.)
The advantage of SaaS is that software can be upgraded rapidly, uniformly, and for all users, on the fly.
The disadvantage of SaaS is that software can be upgraded rapidly, uniformly, and for all users, on the fly.
I've never seen this done well. You constantly end up fighting the formatting. You end up having to learn obscures combinations of key strokes to make it do what you want. Or you just give up and format the text after you've written it all.
That to me is a real loss. I highly value being able to format on the fly.
Best for new users and advanced ones.
If you have BOTH in one editor it's like you've built some kind of Vim-like UI that randomly jumps between modes, it will confuse the shit out of everybody all the time!
That being said, also Microsoft Teams is pretty awful when it comes to `code highlighting`. I haven't exactly figured out why it sometimes renders and sometimes not, it usually works when appending the ` to a letter and then pressing space, but not in other cases.
Just because BigCorps fail to deliver a good solution and then shove it down the user's throat anyway, it's not a bad idea per se. I'd love to have Google Docs & Slides with WYSIWIG Markdown.
Otherwise, ProseMirror supports both WYSIWIG and Markdown, and toggling between those two modes. Look: