In reply to Keith Davis.

lol. With the left menu column collapsed, I'm generally not distracted at all when writing a post in the default text/visual writing panel. I have made it a habit though to close the Tags and Categories widgets when I've selected them.

Since you write content in WordPress, I wonder what you think of the interface presented in this post https://www.wptavern.com/revamping-the-content-creation-experience-in-wordpress I want it now! Not so much the blocks of content on the right side of the screen, but because of the inclusion of the categories, tags, and publishing widgets into the post editor itself. I just feel as though my workflow would improve by a lot if those things currently in stand alone widgets would be part of the post writing screen.