I'm of the opinion that Gutenberg should be a plugin. It's such a jarring change from the MCE editor and I'm still worried how it will affect custom meta fields that are currently used on live sites.

It seems to me that the WordPress Foundation core team is trying to compete with Medium and Squarespace/Wix. Which I don't think they need to do. WordPress is so much more than just a blog or generic website builder and doesn't need to compete with them right out of the box.

I'd really like to see WordPress core development go in the other direction. Develop it as a more flexible CMS and leave all these shiny features as plugins to allow devs and users build the WordPress they need, not force features on everyone that some just think people want.

This is also making me look at other CMS'. I'm just losing confidence in the direction WordPress is being taken. I can't confidently tell my clients that WordPress is the best solution for them anymore. I mean, I'll have to add hours of dev time to my projects just to remove all these unwanted features. That just seems wrong to me.