In reply to Brian Coords.

We went all-in reasonably early with blocks (one early effort was running Gutenberg on WP 4.9) and tried to embrace each major new feature as Gutenberg evolved. After only just pulling off a reasonably complex project with a custom FSE theme, it became obvious we can’t continue working with WordPress or we’ll slowly but surely go out of business. Modern WordPress means exploration, development, and maintenance time has increased and can no longer be accurately quoted. We see the key problem being this: though WordPress has always been our first choice to build a website with, we were never building a “WordPress website”. Modern WordPress is all about building WordPress websites.

It’s back to the Classic Editor for us, after what now seems a wasted and miserable 4 years, while we look for an alternative CMS that can return us to a position of being able to make and keep promises to our clients with confidence.