In reply to Justin Tadlock.

I agree that it does depend on the use case, yeah. Just something to think about before putting too much data (of any kind) into block form though.

I'm personally not sure that making people think testimonials should be a pattern is helpful to them.

Testimonials have a lot of connected data, like the person's name, email, picture, date of testimonial, thing testimonial is about (product a), and the testimonial text itself. Separating all of those pieces of data into hard-to-query separate blocks may not be helpful down the road. Especially if you want to re-use testimonials in another context ever.

But if its only 1 or 2 testimonials, and the site will never scale to the point of having dozens or more, than a testimonial block pattern might be helpful.

I'm not certain if that covers the helpful-to-80% rule to get in core though.