"I have never seen the allure of drag-and-drop features in a content editor. If I am not typing in Markdown, I am in the WordPress editor and using keyboard shortcuts. Throughout my career, I have either been writing code or writing words daily. Picking up my fingers from the keyboard only serves to waste time."

This seems to be the mentality of most people working on Gutenberg as well. It would certainly explain many of their UX design decisions and priorities.

For most of the rest of humanity, not being able to drag a block where you want it from the inserter is almost as stupid a UX omission as omitting copy and paste from a keyboard interface.

Don't get me wrong -- I've been using vi/Vim almost daily since 1985 and I love me some keyboard interfaces. But I'm given to understand that many devices already had mice in 1985, and since then I believe touchpads, or touch screens have also become universal! On many commonly-used devices these days the "keyboard" is just another part of the touch screen.

I used to work with a graphics guy who swore Adobe Illustrator was a waste of time because "anybody" could learn how to hand-code complex splines and vectors vectors directly into PostScript files, just like he did. He was wrong too.