In reply to Ray Gulick.

It’s almost as if the blogging community is the only community that matters

I've seen the opposite argument used against Gutenberg—that it's meant as a page builder and not for blogging.

Have they not heard WP is is doing pretty well as a CMS (and will continue to do so if they don’t muck it up)?

The reality is many people struggle using WordPress for anything more advanced than writing; people struggle to get their site to look like the theme demo says it could look; people struggle to connect what they edit in a certain field somewhere in the UI with how it will look.

WordPress can build incredible sites, but the usability and clarity that people expect from modern web apps is not always up to those standards anymore. It needs to be, for it to remain a great CMS system that both users and developers choose to create their web presence. WordPress has also always been about the user experience, and that needs to continue to improve under newer demands.

Gutenberg is an attempt at fundamentally addressing those needs. An attempt at improving how users can interact with their data in a visual way, wherever that data may be, not at removing the flexibility and power that has made WordPress thrive.