In reply to Rick Gregory.

@Rick:

This is where problem already begins with -- same thing with the updated Plugin Directory, also -- so-called "developers" are users as well, just "power users" if you want. WE are all part of the community and of the userbase, "only" some of us may code, some may not.

So why on earth should their feedback have no weight here? This makes no sense.

Drop the "distraction free writing mode" --- it's totally plugin territory.

In my 11 years with WordPress, I NEVER had any client that ever used the DFW mode. No one wanted something like this, never asked. And when I showed it to some, they all said generally the same: we don't need this, we want to see all options that are available.

And my clients are all just regular usres, that do not know or use HTML code, or even other coding. So they would fit in your image of an "user".

I even assume that the bigger the survey is and the bigger the userbase surveyed, the more users would say: No, don't need this, don't want this.