In reply to Marcus L. Tibesar.

Wow. You know what, Marcus, I am saddened by the community of bitchers in WordPress who do not respect the hard and focused work (and time and money and inspiration and thousands of lines of code) I have put into my WordPress sites. A community who think that I have to swallow everything that comes from top down. A community who follow blindly each and every so called "modern feature", just because we ought "to have no say". What's the point of open source software, if we have no say?
Nobody of the (advanced) community asked the "Gutenberg into Core Mergers" to even start their "hard and focused work", which you want us to praise.
"Disrespecting one another" for me is if someone like you comes here asking me to keep my mouth shut. To stay silent about something that has a bad impact on my daily work. A bad impact on my property. Yes, my property. Because once the core files are installed it is my property that I build with a handful of excellent plugins and lots of custom code. My property. That is now taken over by something I do not need. Many of us do not need.
And all we ask for is to keep this tool a plugin. To please both, website operators who run rather simple sites like you and on the other hand to let us advanced guys use WordPress in more powerful ways as we are used to.
What's the problem with this?
Imagine the following situation: to be a modern future-proof citizen of the community it would be required to have a tattoo. But now some of us decide that everybody has to have a tattoo (ha, maybe the WP logo) on the forehead. And there is no way for you to say no to this. Why would you, it's a modern approach, right? I believe you are the first who starts whining if I come knocking on your door with my tattoo machine under my arm.