Wow, who thought this was a good idea?

As a long time WordPress developer I am horrified that this non-intuitive, user unfriendly, non-improvement was ever allowed to see the light of day. I noted it had horrible reviews before being added to WP as the new editor and figured it would die a natural death, but they went ahead and launched it into millions (hundreds of millions?) of working WordPress installs anyway. Who thought forcing a poorly reviewed editor on 12 years worth of successful site users was a smart idea?

I will allow that the classic editor was in sore need of some improvements, and I have recently started using Elementor for my more complex sites, but after trying it out I knew I would never use this editor for any reason, much less foist it on my clients.

Over two million installs of the classic editor at this writing. Get a clue WordPress. This needs to go. At the very least make it an option rather than an integral part of WP. Please.