In reply to Gary Bairead.

Rolling out a beta version of an editor in continuous rapid development mode with WP 5.x core was already incredibly short-sighted in the first place.

Many pointed that out already before release, but people “in charge” either suppressed such comments or talked them down.

Current result is a totally fragmented 5.x branch in real world where sooner or later many simply stopped updating because something broke all the time, current fragments are:

5.0 1.88%
5.1 2.46%
5.2 5.04%
5.3 5.71%
5.4 9.42%
5.5 11.03%
5.6 12.35%
5.7 35.85%

https://api.wordpress.org/stats/wordpress/1.0/

Theme and plugin developers currently have to deal with lots of variants, simply saying “just update to latest WP” does not work any more, people learend their lessons.