Do you believe that "people bailing when given an extra option" exceeds the number of "people cancelling because the initial result is wrong"?

@Jdforrester-WMF I don't understand what you mean by 'they get an "Edit" button immediately)'. Users currently don't get an immediate "Edit", they have to "Insert" the citation (even if they know full well, it is wrong or incomplete), and only then can re-enter the "Edit"-mode. This non-intuitive extra step is far more disadvantageous than some assumed rare misclicks. Currently, and in the foresseable future, most Citoid references need a bit of polishing and fixing afterwards - this is the more common ''standard'' case. The UI layout should support a convenient way to handle this standard situation.

@Jdforrester-WMF, since this was closed I've seen at least two more complaints about this on community pages.

How exactly was it determined that people bailed and citation was less successful? Could we A/B test this?

We may have to consider this in NWE, where there is no other way to edit parameters (unless you've learnt them).

Would it be possible to do something like a combined flyout, so that you see the formatted citation on top and template dialog (for adding other parameters, etc.) is already loaded below the formatted ciation?

@Esanders I would guess your comment was spurred by this topic I made when WTE2017 originally debuted in beta. Just adding this comment as a bit of documentation that this would definitely be a nice/excellent to have for power users for wikitext editor 2017, if not newbies--all three of the users commenting there (including myself) are old-timers who have most-definitely learned the citation parameters by now. The form is so much more sane than editing citation wikitext in this regard.