[exogeny]

I'd push back on your last point; there's a zero-sum feedback process here that is invisible. You're seeing the negative feedback from a vocal set of minority power users; the positive feedback from people isn't going to be known or seen in anything other than usage metrics.

You say "users": how many, what percentage, what cohort..you get the idea.

[userbinator]

Some people don't care, but the ones who do care and don't like the change, tend to really not like it.

Personally, I think the importance of not upsetting the established userbase far outweighs the probability of maybe growing that userbase a little.

[vorpalhex]

My concern is that they'll count any interaction with this new forced editor as a "win" and pretend it's an A/B test when in reality it's a lark.

[Aeolun]

I somehow doubt a lot of people are going to be happy about a rich text editor that doesn’t work.

A bit like the teams editor, which was forced upon me and is absolutely horrendous.

[tom_mellior]

If we lack percentages, how do you know it's a minority that dislikes this?

[lallysingh]

How do you tell the difference between unpopular features and ones that are mostly liked? In both cases, only "a vocal set of minority power users" would say anything.

[catalogia]

With the state of statistics literacy in this industry, "usage metrics" often mean whatever the person citing them want, with no malice or deception intended. Accidental, inadvertent p-hacking is shockingly common.