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This from the first comment on that post.

Automattic needs a revitalization plan. So even though they know nothing about how WP is used in the wild, they took over the Core development process and declared the editor the problem, and Gutenberg the answer.

And then it freaking hit me. Exactly! They revitalized their paid platform in order to “compete” while disregarding the WP users outside their paid platform. Ok, now this makes perfect sense. Their platform users are basic users anyway who can’t go the length of installing this on a host and running this on their own, so to compete and make “innovations” they introduced this FOR THE PAID PLATFORM and the rest of WP community has to take the pill, too. Who cares about the rest of the WP users who promote the use of the WP anyway, right? It’s about the users of the PAID platform.

Got it.

THAT doesn’t make it useful to the rest of the community outside the paid platform, because that community went much further than WP will ever go. Automattic just has to make sure Classic Editor continues to work and that’s it.

They can do whatever they want to blocks for their paid users. No problem, just leave us do our thing in the wild.

Blocks can stay if they introduce a “classic” block that will mimic Classic Editor capabilities where we can continue with everything as normal.

If they continue to support Classic Editor, so be it. As long as the core can work with that, it’s fine with me.

Good luck with setting sites the way you want without using some additional plugins (which is detrimental to what these blocks were supposed to solve).

People will get used to another useless thing and work with it, that’s true, however, there are better solutions to WP you could introduce that are really so basic, it’s funny.

But I guess some blogger or a bunch of had this beautiful idea of blocks for their personal blogs and felt this would be wonderful to have. And they built this simplistic block functionality that works great for other simplistic blogs, too. But in reality, it’s a step back.

But why bother, when there’s no direct financial incentive, right?

I wish WP would be paid. I’d pay for it and then vote with my money.

But that’s what you get with free stuff. You get what you pay for. I pay for a lot of plugins because their developers listen to what their users want. I can hardly rely on free stuff.

So, yes, this perfectly reflects the free nature of the platform.

Wait… I’ve read a response by you in one of the posts that the catch of blocks editor is to not need any additional visual editor plugins. Like this IS the advantage of Gutenberg. And then to actually get good use of the blocks we need to install plugins. Isn’t that ironic?