What is the problem?

Switching editing modes in VE on the intake form (via the edit dropdown at the top-right of the editor) does not work sometimes.

Steps to reproduce problem

Setting your VE editing preference

1. Make sure "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" is set in Preferences > Editing
2. Go to any normal page (not wishlist-related) and enter editing mode
3. Use the dropdown at the top-right to change editors and set your VE editing mode preference

Reproducing the bug

1. Go to https://wishlist-test.toolforge.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Intake
2. Use the edit mode dropdown to try to change from visual to source or vice versa

Expected behavior:
It properly switches to the desired editor, preserving all content.

Observed behavior:

• If your preferences have you starting with visual mode, you will not be able to switch to wikitext
• If your preferences have you starting with source mode, you can switch to visual once, but will be unable to return to source mode

Notes

I worked with the Editing team on this for quite a while and had to stop. They suggesting using the ext.visualEditor.articleTarget module (or some class thereof), and dropping the registration of the mw.lib.ve.* tools as the articleTarget module does this for us. I attempted this and was not able to get it working. Slack conversation is at https://wikimedia.slack.com/archives/C010UHLBLBX/p1717185554997149 for those who can see it (sorry).

QA Results - Wishlist-test.toolforge