“What some people have called as the pragmatic approach is not concomitant with the design direction this project has had from the start....

Translation: No. We don't want to.

#sigh. I think the team needs to consider the next 5+ years, not just the next 1-2. If it takes, say, 2 or even 3 years to get the full vision implemented then in we end up at the same point but with far less disruption to the community of people who use WP to deliver real solutions to our clients and to those clients. I'm still worried that they don't really understand how prevalent metabox use is and that while we'll have a solution that works for creating new sites with them, we will see breakage in existing sites. Worse, for decision-making in the near and medium term is that I can't be sure we'll have backward compatibility with existing solutions which makes it hard to plan for the next 3-6 months.

Collaborators on the project have grown impatient with the community for not grasping the vision, but communication is scattered across various blogs, comments, Slack channels, and GitHub discussions.

It's the team's responsibility to communicate that vision out and to do so clearly. If we aren't 'grasping the vision' the team can blame the community... or consider their communications.

I love the idea of Mor10 to have a roadmap but again, why does it take someone from outside the team to create a ticket that asks the team to *deliver a freaking roadmap*? That's a basic communication tool.