Ok. I figured it out(at least for me). Like many of you I wasn’t seeing the Visual Editor option. I actually wasn’t seeing either the “Visual” or “HTML” options in the add new post textarea.
I went into my profile by going to: Users -> Your Profile
There is where I noticed a new option which says: “Visual Editor” – with a checkbox that says “Disable the visual editor when writing”. Mine was unchecked. So I thought all was ok. But what I had to do is:
1) Check “Disable the visual editor when writing”
2) Click “Update Profile” – this saves the setting and your visual editor is disabled.
3) Uncheck “Disable the visual editor when writing”
4) Click “Update Profile” – this saves the setting and your visual editor is enabled again.
5) Voila – problem fixed. When I go to Posts -> Add new posts, the two options of “Visual” and “HTML” are back
I was surprised that this worked, but hey after banging my head against this for a couple days I’ll take whatever works.
Good luck all!