User blog comment:TheRealPella/Consistent format for Shop tables/@comment-5275054-20131029161915/@comment-15636815-20131030073030

Yep, I noticed that. During my research, I read everything on Doc's Talk page. Then I tracked down everyone who posted there and read everything on their Talk pages. You were the only one who I remember even mentioning the visual editor. The others probably preferred editing in source code, anyway. Once a code geek, always a code geek...

I really hope the new VE's TemplateData feature works the way I'm imagining it. As you noted, Template:Cost requires manual input to work properly. My hope is that TemplateData will allow users to input cost data through the VE, while Template:Cost still works in the background to format the data for table viewing. As of now, complex code anywhere in the template forces manual editing, even if the input is simple and the complexity happens on the back end. We'll see.