I also find myself struggling with seemingly basic things.

Like I wanted to highlight a few words in the middle of a sentence by changing the background color...easy enough in classic editor, still not sure how to do it, if possible even, in Gutenberg.

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Worth noting as well:

Matias was live demo-ing on a local branch that had several custom features tailored for the demo that didn’t (and possibly still may not) exist in any released iteration of Gutenberg.