Visual editors aren't going anywhere

Every few months someone declares visual editors dead. Then a new one launches, raises a round, and gets traction. The reason is simple: most people think visually. Code-first workflows optimize for precision and repeatability. Visual tools optimize for exploration and speed. These aren't competing values, they serve different moments in the same process.

The real shift isn't visual vs. code. It's that the best tools are collapsing the gap between the two. Figma ships Dev Mode. Framer ships to production. Bolt and Lovable generate full apps from prompts. The winners won't be the ones that pick a side, they'll be the ones that let you move fluidly between both.