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Speaking as someone who manages a WP blog rarely, makes no money from it and has no skin in this game or preconceptions about RTE in Wordpress, I am really impressed by Gutenberg.

It seems to be about the right level of abstraction for "semi-structured" data, it feels balanced between block and WYSIWYG editing, and that's a hard balance to strike.

I also definitely sympathise with those that use the classic editor because it's what they know, and that's fine. We should celebrate any architecture that supports choice.

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> Speaking as someone who manages a WP blog rarely, makes no money from it and has no skin in this game or preconceptions about RTE in Wordpress, I am really impressed by Gutenberg.

This is the problem. Gutenberg was built for casual bloggers like you, but there's a significant amount of users who ask much more of their websites and have therefore already implemented solutions and processes that can't be easily undone. If you're new to WordPress, Gutenberg is probably fine.

I hope no one was expecting that their custom code would be automagically migrated to Gutenberg. Eventually they will have to migrate if they are going with the times. The old editor was morally obsolete.

It is like driving Tesla and complaining that the charging infrastructure is not as good as it could be yet. Then wait some years, but you know that everyone will want to switch eventually.

I really like how Gutenberg functions and it certainly was the right call to make and it proved to me that they are not stuck in the past. If they hadn't implemented it, they would probably start losing a lot more users to other platforms with more modern tools.

It's like driving a Tesla but complaining that the charging infrastructure is not as good as it could be yet ... so you build your own which Tesla encouraged. Then Tesla builds their own charging network and you're all "cool, but I already have my own network, can I keep using that?" and Tesla was like "yah bro".

Use Gutenberg, don't use Gutenberg, whatever. That's what makes WordPress great (and terrible).

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