I totally welcome this

I just tested this on a theme for a client and nothing broke. If the theme is well-written (as when installing 3rd party plugins) then you compatibility issues should not be as bad.

I build WordPress themes/plugins for non-techies and the hoops you have to go through to make sure content is displayed properly takes a lot of time and the end customers still finds it confusing.

The Gutenberg editor might feel weird to begin with but the process for end users to update the website is much simpler. It allows them to create without having to know HTML or to deal with that clunky editor. And get this, things actually appear where they expect – how about that! That old WYIWYG editor was OK for the 90s, but it’s time to let it go.

I welcome these changes and am looking forward to leave behind all the legacy crap I had to write to make my customers happy. Thank you for this and keep up the good work!