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Mark Ciotola Many customers do not have enough money to spend on WP customization if it will have to all be redone every few years due to the 4 phases of Gutenberg. They don’t have blank checkbooks. They cannot NOT afford to have backward compatibility. They will switch to something else, if only out of the feeling of being cheated by Wordpress. Also, Gutenberg is a much different editing experience for customers. That is fine for new customers who have a choice, but it is really bad to shove the new experience down the throats of customers who already spent their budgets on customizing Wordpress (or paid for themes and plugins), and now are being switched to a different experience when they did not choose to do so. This isn’t pure greed. A lot of NGOs use Wordpress and are in the same situation.
Mark Ciotola
Many customers do not have enough money to spend on WP customization if it will have to all be redone every few years due to the 4 phases of Gutenberg. They don’t have blank checkbooks. They cannot NOT afford to have backward compatibility. They will switch to something else, if only out of the feeling of being cheated by Wordpress.
Also, Gutenberg is a much different editing experience for customers. That is fine for new customers who have a choice, but it is really bad to shove the new experience down the throats of customers who already spent their budgets on customizing Wordpress (or paid for themes and plugins), and now are being switched to a different experience when they did not choose to do so. This isn’t pure greed. A lot of NGOs use Wordpress and are in the same situation.
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