In reply to Anh Tran.

EDIT: Whoops...I didn't mean for this to be a reply to Anh. Meant to make it a top-level comment, but clicked reply on the last comment on the screen. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If you don’t do it a certain way, are you doing_it_wrong?
Which interface am I supposed to use and which method is considered doing_it_wrong?

I don't think any way that someone accomplishes a task is doing_it_wrong. There are a number of ways to do things in Gutenberg and the user can select the method that works best for them.

I know you know this, but that also wasn't the point of my post. It was more to counter the idea that things always take longer or more steps in Gutenberg.

To me the key questions to take away from your experience here and other feedback like it:
1. Why are some users having trouble finding the more efficient workflows?
2. What can we do to better surface controls and educate users about the new interface?

Finally, one comment regarding this:
Where is all of the research and usability testing that explains the why behind so many of the interactions and flows?
This is something I've wondered for a while. There is a lot of feedback buried in forum threads, GitHub issues, tweets, etc, but I've never seen any aggregation of this feedback, or reports generated from any usability testing that's been done.

Without better reporting of the overall feedback, UX decisions (often made in conversations on GitHub pull requests) can appear to be assumptions or feelings about the feedback a developer happened to read.

This kind of reporting/documentation takes time and a lot of work, but I think it could help with some of the public perceptions about the decisions that have been made.