Good question. Currently I never open the side by side panes (one on the editor and the other in preview mode)
I think it’s too cluttered to do it that way.
I understand it might be useful for people who put a lot of images thought.
I am used to markdown and it doesn’t bother me to stay in the editor mode most of the time.
What you might find useful is using the shortcut ctrl+e to toggle preview mode on and off when needed.
If you want to open [[links to other notes]] there’s no need to go into preview mode if you don’t want to.
You can open a [[link]] by pressing ctrl+click on top of the [[link]] to open it.
Yeah, the WYSIWYG like typora sounds great, and as far as I know, it’s something the team has talked about for the future. in the mid-time you could try solutions like this one to simulate something similar: