"biting the hand that feeds you"
Two years ago my agency was going to move to drupal, after being in wordpress for almost a decade, and in joomla before that.
Wordpress simply did not have dynamic content abilities, and for visual editing we had to resort to divi or themeforest proprietary themes (avada, enfold, the 7,...), all of which had issues when trying to use dynamic content plugins like ACF or Toolset, either bootstrap compatibility or some javascript tangling.
Customers were demanding dynamic content and the highest paid projects all involved dynamic content editing and more freedom in building content templates, moving from the vanilla premade templates everyone uses.
Gutenberg plans were messy and more of a vanity fair for some people involved and we were wasting time and losing projects.
Drupal, or another CMS, was the way to go. Goodbye Wordpress.

Enters Elementor Pro dynamic content and full site editing (or whatever the people from gutenberg want to call it). Suddenly using wordpress (with elementor pro) was up to par with drupal cck, with a much better UI/UX and useful responsive design features.
So we stuck to wordpress and used elementor pro in all projects.
Then came motion effects, table of contents, conditionals and a lot more things, either directly from elementor pro or from it's plugin ecosystem, and wordpress got richer and more able to tackle any kind of project.

Zoom into 2021. If you look at gutenberg, it's still a mess: blocks plugins that don't work well with each other, no motion effects, no core responsive editing, no consistent AMP support, continuous discussions about things that should be a no brainer and still a vanity fair for some. On top of that, a continuous going back and forth in ideas and features. It's still more of developers playground, but by no means a way of developing sustainable business on top of it.
Hopefully the block based themes can go another way and overcome this.

And yes, elementor (and divi) overlooked the pagespeed issues (render blocking) that core web vitals enforces and that, more than gutenberg user experience, may cause their downfall.

But when people here talk about five million elementor installs, remember that they represent five million sites that remained in the wordpress ecosystem, rather than going to some other CMS like drupal or wix or shopify.
So mumbling about elementor using this or that statement in ads is more like biting the hand that feeds you than any kind of real justice.
Just my five cents.....