While I don’t fully support the approach that Schuller took with building Pickle, I agree with the basic premise of pushing the boundaries to simplify WordPress for the user. Pickle is inspirational, despite its technical drawbacks. It is a groundbreaking example of a WordPress-powered content editing experience that is perfectly tailored to the frontend design.

What if there were different modes for using WordPress?

Meaning, as an author, you'd be limited to a front end writing experience similar to that of Pickle but if you were an admin, you might see the default WordPress admin experience (which you could switch back and forth from)?

Does anyone see any value in that? Obviously, themes would need further standardization, but that's not a road we haven't been down before. I think it could be done and I think it would be awesome for writers to be able to have a more streamlined and pleasurable writing experience, a la Medium.