Mine did. Like this:

I guess WordPress 7.0 assumes you are using a theme.json file these days. I’m not doing that yet on any of the sites I work on. If you want to embrace that future, you could add a theme.json file to the root of your theme, and put some typography basics only in there:
{
"$schema": "https://schemas.wp.org/trunk/theme.json",
"version": 2,
"settings": {
"appearanceTools": true,
"layout": {
"contentSize": "720px"
},
"typography": {
"fontFamilies": [
{
"fontFamily": "system-ui, sans-serif",
"name": "System Font",
"slug": "system-font"
}
]
}
},
"styles": {
"typography": {
"fontFamily": "var(--wp--preset--font-family--system-font)",
"lineHeight": "1.75"
}
}
}
Code language: JSON / JSON with Comments (json)
That will be much nicer than no styles at all.
Or if you don’t want to mess with that you can go to the upper-right three-dot menu (“Option”), choose Preferences then go to the Appearance tab and make sure Use theme styles is unchecked.

I think it’s sorta neat that you could use the same typography setup for both the front-end and back of your site this way, and if you use theme.json for the front, might as well use it for the back. But I also personally don’t mind if the back-end is entirely default styles. It’s a reminder that you’re in a CMS, and content is data, not WYSIWYG.
Thanks for this. I was wondering what in the world was going on!
Hi Philip,
After updating to WP 7 I was quite shocked to find the old-fashioned serif font back in the Editor. I tried your workaround theme.json file, but it did not help. I’m using an SKT customised theme, and the classical editor, NOT the blocks editor. Can you advise on how to restore the default editor font to something like ‘Open Sans’? Thanks.
Forget my previous message. Your theme.json hack DOES work. Sorry and tks!