Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/Feedback for the character inserter/reply (31)

What's the point of bothering us with feedback when developers didn't even look at the existing tools for the wikitext editor ?

The devs did look at the existing systems. However, they did not want to automatically assume that they way it's been done in the past is the best possible solution. There were pretty significant technical limitations in what could be done in the wikitext editor (e.g., no possibility of floating palettes—which we might not want in the end, but which simply were impossible in the old editor).