Somewhere around April 2019 Atlassian decided to start rolling out the new editor:
Confluence Editing Improvements
There are a few improvements, but I lost many more features that I really liked. I will maintain the list below, hoping that maybe it will be picked up.
Functionality lost
Improvements
Please add what you think is better or worse below in the comments.
Thanks
Marcel
The functionality lost has been very frustrating to me. No more nested check lists? All of the extra white space, vertically & horizontally, means I can see less on the screen at once. I go through all of the extra steps to use the old editor, and have to tell my teammates to do the same. What a shame. I even reached out to Confluence to give my feedback, and they ignored it.
Please bring back the ability to use the old editor as the default. Thank you.
What users is Confluence trying to convey to?
Definitely not users who want to convey information - like my company.
As Randy Cox stated, why all the white space?
If you want to convey information, look at newspapers or scientific papers.
The only information that white space conveys is that there is no information!
The old editor was already creating too much unwanted white space. But why replace it with one that creates even more white space?
Question to Confluences development team:
What is the audience you cater to?