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:::Are these permanent? That depends upon which definition of "permanent" we're using. It's possible, for example, that if you write a .css line to hide the button, then the button's label might some day get changed, and you'd have to update your .css file to hide the new button. That approach will permanently hide the existing button, but it won't hide all possible future iterations of that button. (Notice that I said this is "possible"; I do not say that it is "likely". The circumstance most likely to trigger this would be a decision to rename all the buttons in the tabs at the top of the page.) Similarly, since software has a life cycle that is shorter than most humans', it's likely that the current visual editor will some day get replaced by some other visual editor; in that case, turning off the current one is not necessarily a guarantee that future versions would be turned off for you. And even a prefs setting that explicitly says "Permanently disable the visual editor" is not a guarantee of permanence, because prefs settings are regularly changed, and several are removed each year.
:::What I'd like to understand is: Why is this important to you? Are you having significant problems right now? If you're having problems, I'd be happy to report your problems to the team and see if they can improve them. [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 18:42, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
::::Oh, I forgot to answer your other question: In "they believed that it might eventually be removed", the word "it" refers to the prefs setting. The antecedent is "that specific prefs entry in the database". [[User:Whatamidoing (WMF)|Whatamidoing (WMF)]] ([[User talk:Whatamidoing (WMF)|talk]]) 18:44, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
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