Yes!!! A thousand times, yes!
Thanks for this.

When I'm opening text editor, I want to be able to type something within the next 2 second. I don't want to have to *click* my way to the actual editor.

The frustrating part is that the option you describe isn't in the actual TextEdit preferences.
You'd think they could at least put some sort of link, from the TextEdit preferences, to the iCloud preferences. Or a simple checkbox that says "Don't use iCloud with TextEdit".
At any rate, this works superbly. Thanks again!
Chris