I find it curious that one of the criticisms highlighted in the article, with the latest releases of Gutenberg, you mention broken CSS. Added to this the oddball spacer, leaves me cold regarding the new block editor. There is too much a touch of, we’re having fun experimenting here, and not enough of building something stable.

Don’t get me wrong, fundamentally using the block editor is quite good, but I only use it sparingly. Once you start straying into something more ambitious it becomes very unwieldy.

For example I have been running a test site with the excellent Kadence theme, very flexible and feature full. What let’s me down is not the theme itself but the way the block editor can suddenly go skew ways. For example I installed the much reviewed Editor Plus and imported one of its layout packs to a page. First impressions look good until you looked more closely and realise many element that were meant to be aligned centrally are not. It’s like margin auto was broken on one side. For the life of me, was it possible to fix easily... NO, defeating the purpose of the block éditer being the all dancing panacea for WordPress into the future.

Part of me feels excited with the prospect that many page builders, that already donlayout far better than the block editor, would convert to become block based under the hood. Then again another part of me fears the regret that may come with this move.

And, you would wonder what will happen to WooCommerce, still stuck in Classic land. It is like the third secret of Fatima. Is the Classic editor still set to disappear by the end of this year?