In reply to Rick Gregory.

You bring up valid points. When Morten raised the issue of Telemetry in WordPress and obtaining usage data on a large scale to help make informed decisions, I thought about the 80/20 rule and I also wondered why Gutenberg was a thing. To my knowledge, there have not been hundreds or thousands of people clamoring for a new editor or for something that Gutenberg in its full implementation will enable. So then, what is the Why behind Gutenberg? That is what I think Morten addresses in his video. But at the end of the day, Gutenberg is a project that was created by Matt and by getting a few Automatticians to work on it, is bypassing the typical WordPress development process to speed up the timeline of its eventual inclusion into core.

Matt decided that Gutenberg is the future of WordPress and is doing what is necessary to make it a reality sooner rather than later. It's one example of him being the captain of the ship and telling everyone on-board we're going a certain direction. You can jump overboard or come along for the ride and hope for the best lol.

If you take a clean install of WordPress, how many features do you think are largely influenced by Automattic? Meaning, they fulfill a purpose specifically for the benefit of Automattic?