In reply to Knut Sparhell.

You can't remove it. You can HIDE it from clients but what I, at least, mean by 'remove' is to actually remove the code from the codebase. There's no good reason to have a code editor in core. No dev in their right mind edits code on a live site if they can help it and if they have to, they can SFTP in and get at the code that way. Spending resources on make code editing within a CMS is just a waste of those resources.

I'd *really* like core to drop a lot of things that it seems to insist on having in the core code itself and let those be modular. For example, drop the editor as a part of core and have it be hooked in as a plugin. Want the current editor? Activate that plugin. Want to replace it? Install and activate another plugin whether that's the Gutenberg plugin or another.

That way, if someone *really* wants a code editor in WP they can install a plugin to do it but core itself doesn't include the code and the core team doesn't spend time or effort on it.