In reply to WPezDeveloper.

You do make a good point there, regarding the cowboy design and, not something I was considering, in terms of handing a site to a client to work on and then they run amuck.

I would argue that there are a multitude of other things where this can happen anyway. It's a perennial problem. This is why it is usually wise to lock a site down for the client so that they can only make a few select moves and access to a select number of templates.

Yes there are those clients who will get it and will have an eye to keeping things in line, but for the main part many are very good at having a lot of fun with those settings. In a sense the new block editor encourages this for users of all levels when something more rudimentary would suffice. Say, for example the designer templates up post layout and the client just gets a simple classic editor interface when creating and editing the post. That conforms with the concept of keeping content and design separate.

I like the way that they have kept the block editor as basic as possible. The one criticism, which I highlighted in opening, was standardisation and providing the layout furniture in the form of sections(group block) and columns. As it is these need a bit more work and what we see is many third parties ( Kadence, Co-Blocks, etc.) filling this void. This means that there are many ways that one designer can move away from the standard blocks used and potentially cause problems down the road when another designer steps in and decides they want to use another solution.

What would be a killer feature of the new block editor would be if hooks where provided for third parties (those who make block suites, themes and page builders) to override the blocks with their own UI and bells and whistles. Change theme, builder or plugin and at least your content would roughly remain in the layout that was intended.

I do agree that probably the site wide defaults for paddings and margins is a good idea. Then keep them hidden from those pesky clients!