As a developer that builds about 16 sites a year, I can’t get behind the block editor. I build sites for clients that want to be able to take what I buil and then be able to update and make structural changes on their own after that as they add posts and pages to meet their own business needs,

The block editor UI is terrible – users need a solution that is much easier to visualize what they are building. My clients don’t want to have to spend a lot of time figuring out the block editor. I ran some experiments with my user base. I asked them to try building a page with a relatively simple structure and content using the block editor – and then try the same thing using Elementor. Every single user preferred Elementor (and probably would prefer any of the major page builders) – their comments were that they preferred the easy way to see what they were building and the components that were available to them.

FSE just added more complexity for my users. I’m not ready to quit on WordPress – I think it is still the best solution for CMS/SEO, but don’t plan on adopting FSE or block editing until it gets to the point that my clients can feel comfortable with it.