In reply to Christopher A.

I can bet you that every Automattic employee contributing to this project (and many more other non-Automattic contributors) are doing their absolute best to make this work for everyone using WordPress both today and in the future. Automattic has everything to lose. In fact as one of the largest companies relying on WordPress in the world, Automattic could be the biggest loser as it pretty much depends on WordPress continuing to gain marketshare.

WordPress community on the other side has a lot to gain. Gutenberg could prove to be the giant effort that will take WordPress to the next level and it will happen transparently (and magically) for 99.999% WordPress users that are not involved with the effort to create it. And if it doesn't do what it promises, do you think it would be pushed into WordPress? I don't and it wouldn't be the first time.

If you do want to be involved there is a preferred method to that. Even if you are not a developer you can open new issues and make sure your voice is heard in the existing ones. Start here:

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues

All it takes is a github account.

While at it, hats down for Gutenberg contributors. Not only working on a giant, challenging project but also under immense pressure of the community and a slew of negative comments. I imagine it can't get much harder than that.