In reply to Rick Gregory.

I think that Automattic is both good and not that good for Gutenberg.

It's good because it provides the ressources, developers and passion around this project. Things we should be thankful about.

And less good, because the developers being from Automattic are somewhat biased regarding the importance of MetaBoxes. They do understand they are important but I feel like they fail to realize just how vital they became in WordPress. At Automattic, WordPress.com is a blogging platform and metaboxes are dispensable, but WordPress (SelfHosted) is mainly used as a CMS and as such, it can't live without MetaBoxes.

I’m still worried that they don’t really understand how prevalent metabox use is