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Freelance developers selling WordPress to their clients (and who build custom themes and plugins) are being ignored by WP core and they are regularly broken by changes. It seems like Automatic is optimizing for Wix marketshare and abandoning some of it's key champions.

I think they could have avoided much of this by listening to these devs, having backwards compatible designs, and slowing down to produce higher quality code.

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Strange to hear BC breaks are common since its architecture screams procedural and dated. Though some of that could be they still technically support PHP 5.

Gutenberg brings React and a block architecture. That blurs the lines between "chrome" and end-user styles. This is more at the CSS and React level. The amount of !important CSS rules going into core is kind of terrifying.

The amount of time I spend in a specificity war between theme styles and wp core's ever-changing sheets is far too much!

The block library stylesheet is awful, and there is also no interface to interact with it directly. Instead we get to edit a json file which gives us access to a few dozen properties and deal with that.

Not to mention the incomplete javascript and PHP interfaces which seem to be developed by two battling teams... :(

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