Totally agree.
@cyberdave and Webflow Staff:
Try explaining to your editors that anything they do, even if accidentally, they WILL have to publish and then go back and see what it was and put it back to how it was before OR they have to publish and then let me restore the site to a previous state (which sounds horrifying to an Editor). If instead we had a “discard changes” like you do when you edit a collection item and just go back, then it would be the opposite and I could tell the editors: “Play around however much you like and try something out and if you don’t like it, just discard your changes and start again.”
The message is just so much different and their sentiment would change from “You have to be super careful in Webflow” to “I can play around and not break anything as I can undo my changes before they ever went live”.
It’s for very good reason that being able to undo your actions is actually number 3 in the much-cited 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interaction by Jakob Nielsen from 1994, that still hold up today. In that sense, the Webflow Editor fails in User Interaction spectacularly.