I really did, but I find it distracting and overly complicated when writing a simple block post.

This simple plugin saves the day, and judging by the reception, it also has saved the day for a lot of other people too.

Building block style editors are undoubtedly the future but I don’t know why Gutenberg couln’t co-exist within “classic” editor – at least to begin with. Making it either or really limits the flexibility of WordPress IMO.