Thread:VisualEditor/Feedback/Cancel button/reply (5)

In what way is a cancel button "not helpful"? Is it deemed to be harmful in some way? I understand that it is not necessary, but that can be difficult for a new user to grasp. It is not self-evident that navigating away from the page is the way to cancel the edit, and besides, that seems to me like crashing out of a program to stop it - a bit of a kludge, not very clean, and counter-intuitive.