In reply to Knut Sparhell.

We're talking past one another. The CODE is still in core. Yes, you can remove it so it's not accessible by clients but the code for the editor is still in core, it's still being worked on etc. To me, core needs to be as light as possible with any non-essential code being removed. Also, if the prudent move is to disable it for clients why have the code there? You might say "well my clients don't have admin rights" but that's a tricky stance since, from a client perspective, they don't have full control over their site if the developer stops responding, goes out of business, etc. So all of my clients usually do have one admin account.

Could a site admin simply install a plugin to do this if the code was really removed from core? Sure. But so what? Site admins, by definition, can do almost anything to their site. That doesn't mean core should encourage those things by providing them.