Very Disappointing
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I am a web developer and have been building sites on WordPress for years now. I love the platform, but this is truly a disappointment and I am very surprised this was something actually released. There was extremely poor responses to your gutenberg plugin people tested before you pushed it out as a core feature… wish you would have listened. Your ‘block’ approach seems to make since when you talk about it, but in practice it is a disaster. It is built very poorly and does not work well with robust page builders such as Beaver Builder, which is much, much, much better than this shabby attempt at using a block builder in place of your very popular wysiwyg. It also does not pull in the theme styles via the customizer and does not allow you to easily edit the html. Please read these reviews and you can clearly see that no one actually likes this change. You can try to argue that it is because the feature is new and something the people have to get used to, but you will be wrong. I have worked on many platforms and the old wysiwyg was such an integral piece of WP that made life easy for both the novice and advanced developers to work with. Now you have ruined it for both sides. Just take it as a very bad choice and go back to the drawing board. Otherwise, people will be looking for better alternatives.
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@ogalinski
You are talking semantics. I am well aware what gutenberg is and if you read carefully my comments and understood my points, it is that the “block” approach is similar to a builder and if you want to go that route, it is better to use a page builder that works well. Gutenberg is just a terrible approach to creating the block content. Also, a point I was making is that it does not work well with builders.Regarding your comments about disabling gutenberg, is not addressing the issues I am raising with gutenberg being a core part of WordPress now. Adding additional plugins to disable something in the core of WP that most people do not like is not really a fix but a bandaid. Wouldn’t it be much better to solve problems at the route causes and frustrations?
So, while you make valid points about what gutenberg is defined as, you don’t actually make any valid points to why this feature is actually good. I go back to the overwhelmingly negative response to this feature and that fact that it is not a step forward like the WP team intended it to be, in my opinion.
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