In reply to Martin Brinks.

Gutenberg has had multiple issues commenting on how the [enter] key creates a new block rather than a new paragraph, which may be confusing to writers. The UI handling of multiple paragraphs has improved but, issues remain.

I was trained on a manual typewriter in high school many decades ago, and many millions of other writers like me have long used [enter] for creating new paragraphs in the typing process.

The WordPress Gutenberg team has chosen to ignore this deeply embedded (at muscle memory level) user behavior. It seems that abstract blocks matter more than actual text content from their developer perspective.

Having worked as a professional editor and typesetter during my long career in publishing, communications, and information technology; I can tell you that users choose their content creation processes based upon experience and needs, with training as a secondary concern, while following differing rules of a process or technology can be a painful hurdle.

For example, when a user finds they have lost granularity of text selection across multiple blocks, which they see as paragraphs, they will look for a workaround. A simple workaround for Gutenberg's [enter] behavior would be to use a double [shift]+[enter] to create the desired result of a continuous stream of text that looks like paragraphs with granular control. It looks and works as they want and need it--although it's not structured as paragraphs as defined by HTML and as referenced by CSS and other systems. A pair of break elements within a paragraph element is not the equivalent of a pair of paragraph elements, though it may be intended to be.

Both Gutenberg and this workaround example create issues for user entry, editorial work, and design styling. Long-read documents could require onerous review and fixes, just for the simple formatting of paragraph text.

The maxim of "Old is easy, new is hard" is a real thing. Sure, you can make new processes and introduce them to users. But with Gutenberg on this and other issues, the maxim is most always "Resistance is futile."