Thanks. That sort of makes sense, except that moodle provided files for resources/files so students would have to download those anyways.
I guess no one thought of it before. A lot of my colleagues still provide extensive descriptions of assignments in their course syllabus. My course is year long and the assignments students do are elaborate and often are adapted to where the students are at in a particular class during the year,so I can't provide more description in the course outline and prefer not to write text on moodle...Files are just so much easier to drag and drop for Assignment pane. And you can format them in Word and emphasize what you want to emphasize rather than monkeying around with formatting in the Details pane. Plus it is so much easier the next year to just go to the File in your computer and make revisions rather than having to go to the moodle site to find the exact wording one used.
All in all, having drag and drop as an option is so much better. People who want to still write in the Details pane can still do that. The thing I want in moodle is to have as many options as possible, and fewer Mandatory fields so I as a professor can choose what I want and don't want to use. Anyways, that is my principle of operation with this software!