Caleb
Don't get me wrong. CodeMirror is awesome and I'm glad it is the default input editor. But it isn't for everybody. In particular I use [Firenvim](https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim) to automatically edit content fields across the web using in full-blown Neovim editor environment, complete with all my usual plugins. My setup includes Markdown and prose editing niceties that go far beyond even what is built in here.
I would propose a user setting to be saved in my profile that says I prefer not to have the full CodeMirror editor but a simple textarea instead. This would allow be to use my own editor without a bunch of hacks trying to extricate CodeMirror from the picture. I can and have actually gotten it to work, but it's kind of brittle.