In reply to Marius H.

Yeah, I get the very valid concern of being smoked out, but everything they're doing is looking out for themselves, which is the point of a business.

Saying the project predates the release is sort of an awkward way to phrase it because on is the project and one is the release.

"We had the idea before they put out their idea made manifest and usable."

It's not Elementor's problem that WP core is late to its own party. As others have pointed out, Elementor itself was late to the party overall by years and years, not even having the first version of its base software out until other full site editing plugins had existed and been around a bit.

I 100% believe they're taking advantage of the phrasing, but if that's perceived to be a jerk move -- well, the world keeps spinning and if it can't change because it's not illegal, better work hard to adjust. If you don't have as much money (not hard to believe if they just upped their prices), do the best with what you have. Have the free "negative" publicity on all your accounts putting them on blast. Talk with them diplomatically and ask them to support.

It's not like you can sabotage them and find ways to make their software not work anymore so everyone's forced to use Gutenberg, or if you could you certainly shouldn't.

It's okay to like Gutenberg and it's okay to dislike Elementor -- goodness knows they both have wonkiness and bugs and headaches and things. But there's no "there" there here. Defensiveness, being entitled, etc. Nothing more.

I am pretty sure that if, as they say, they have huge performance issues and Gutenberg is core software leaning as hard as it can on not being bloated it can eventually win in the long term on merit, so have some confidence in the product and put up a fight!