In the end wordpress is not a CMS. It is some hybrid of a CMS and web page builder, but much closer to the page builders than CMS.

There is no need to look far to see this. On the post edit page you first have the slug which the page is going to use and only after that the content.

You can see it also in the automatic way archive pages are generated, zero editorial control over them.

Unfortunately seems like in 4.8 core will attempt to compete with pure page builders like WIX instead of attempting to get into the big CMS league. From following the discussion, it seems like the focus is on the layout in the front end for the single post, instead of building the blocks and tools to create more interesting aggregations of content.

IMHO the first step should have been to finish the unfinished business of post formats. I can't understand how anyone seriously believe that he can design any sort of aggregation of content types when the simpler task of handling just one content type per page is still an unresolved issue.