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Rich Hauck This article reminded me of why I’ve shifted my career away from WordPress development (I’ve been doing custom theme development since 2006). Despite the good intentions, Gutenberg seemed more like a response to competitors and not a focus on users (who were forced to be guinea pigs). Personally, I realized that if Gutenberg was this frustrating for me, it’d be even more frustrating for my non-technical clients. Not everyone is meant to be a layout designer! JavaScript front-ends were the right direction for performance, but I don’t think Automattic properly documented/educated the WordPress community to make that jump. I work in React regularly, but don’t know many WordPress developers that do. I hope they do right the ship. I also hope this spawns more open-source CMS competition.
Rich Hauck
This article reminded me of why I’ve shifted my career away from WordPress development (I’ve been doing custom theme development since 2006).
Despite the good intentions, Gutenberg seemed more like a response to competitors and not a focus on users (who were forced to be guinea pigs). Personally, I realized that if Gutenberg was this frustrating for me, it’d be even more frustrating for my non-technical clients. Not everyone is meant to be a layout designer!
JavaScript front-ends were the right direction for performance, but I don’t think Automattic properly documented/educated the WordPress community to make that jump. I work in React regularly, but don’t know many WordPress developers that do.
I hope they do right the ship. I also hope this spawns more open-source CMS competition.
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