I disagree with the last three messages: the visual editor is bound to
be painful when enabled; if the team has established that they're in a
stage where they are done with the knowns in some areas but need more
testing on the field (and feedback) to discover more, they must be
allowed to, otherwise they'll surely lose time, not working on important
issues they couldn't predict.
I'm not able to make such an assessment, but I read today a discussion
on it.wiki where it was noted how only 132 edits were made with the
visual editor. It's impossible, for the community (or anyone) on any
given wiki, to gain any confidence in the tool as long as its usage is
at such negligible levels.
VE is useless for power users, so we can only try with newbies. I don't
know if new accounts are the best choice, maybe it should be triggered
only after the 10th edit (we know at this point the survival rate is
much better); but this can be changed any time, I guess.
Nemo