Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/Gallery

What's the point of adding a Gallery function (as announced in 2014-01-16 (MW 1.23wmf11)) when it offers "zero" functionality, you need to know wikitext (gallery code and plain formatting) to be able to use it at all? I thought we weren't allowed to use wikitext in VE under any circumstances? Was there some deadline that needed to be met? Bored of the constant "we need a gallery insertion tool" complaints (as if the people complaining about this will now be happy instead of even more pissed off)? Simply incompetent (let me present the "special character" insertion tool, or simply VE as a whole, as further evidence)? Perfection may not be required, but something useful and working may not be too much to ask once in a while, no?