Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/differentiation between editing screen / page viewing/reply

This is (to some extent) intentional - we don't want "reading" and "editing" to be different modes in people's heads, we want it to be part of the same collaborative continuum. There are ways we can make it a little more obvious without breaking the frame of reference entirely, but overall this is a "feature not bug" kind of thing. :-)