Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/bug 49904 not on roadmap/reply (10)

That is and has always been the goal, yes; the intent is that users will never have to touch wikitext for any kind of mainline contribution, be that on articles, discussions, policy work, media improvement or anything else. (A very few issues will probably not be replaced any time soon, like interface messages – the MediaWiki: namespace – but that's so rarely edited that it's not likely even users around for five years will notice they can't edit it with VE.)

However, just because wikitext editing will be entirely replaced with visual editing and the wikitext editor won't be needed by the vast majority of users doesn't mean that we're going to remove it, don't worry.