Wow, that’s quite an essay on the content editor. We’ve been doing this for a long time and know the lay of the land. We even built a WYSIWYG editor we can’t give up (we tried for two years). First in praise of the WordPress editing experience: the Media Library has grown to be very powerful and easy to use. It’s awesome. We were delighted to retire the original image editing module we were using last year and fully integrate the Media Library. Still what are the issues with WordPress content editing which drive us to maintain a separate WYSWIYG editor?
Hint, it’s not the money, thousands of hours have gone into this purely GPL and non-commercial product. It’s not boredom. We have too much to do in three lifetimes and very short weekends already.
It’s not shortcodes. Shortcodes are great and reliable ways to easily and visibly add content to posts. As soon as you start trying to hide the pieces, reliability falls through the cracks. It’s why lawyers still use WordPerfect.
Why were we unable to give up our own FCK WYSIWYG editor? Code and javascript mangling. The WordPress TinyMCE editor does not reliably maintain paragraphs and linebreaks.
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/14225/editor-technical-overview
source https://williechiu40.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/editor-technical-overview/
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