I am a developer who uses Optimizely for a lot of experimentation and have to spend a lot of the time inside of the code editor. The new editor creates way too much friction. I don't need my entire website to load and then inject optimizely's scripts. This cant take multiple seconds just to change one line of code.

I would much prefer it if we could have something like a toggle on our profile where we could choose to never show the preview and just show us the variation code in a code editor. I can always copy a link if I want to go look at the preview.

The one thing I do like about the new code editor is that it feels more like vs code where it gives you intellisense and smart code / method completion. If we could have this functionality in a web based code editor without having to load any preview (I legitimately never look at the integrated preview, I just copy the link into a private window).