In reply to Matías.

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.

I think this is where the communication is breaking down. You're saying WordPress is a web app. It's not. The majority of WordPress sites built by professional web design agencies and developers make use of WordPress as a Content Managment System, not as a DIY SquareSpace like web app.

Clients can spend anywhere from $25,000 - over $1,000,000 to have professional designers and developers to build them a website from very specific design specs. Not to build a "build your own site" platform, so that any office jockey to go in and build a page without following the companies design specs.

Believe it or not, this is where that "WordPress is 25% of the web" is coming from. Companies using WordPress as a CMS, not as a DIY site builder.

This is where all the concerns about Gutenberg are coming from. The professional market, not the casual market. Us professionals are seeing all these shiny features that keep getting ham fisted into WordPress as a threat to our services. Not that it'll take away from our business, but that it makes it that much harder for us to build the types of websites our clients demand and need.

And it's not that we hate these features. Just the opposite. We can totally see these features like Gutenberg being a very useful in certain situations, but that's the key. Certain situations, not all situations, like is being forced upon us.

The reason we feel like you're not listening to our concerns is that the Foundation leadership and core team is only looking at this from the DIY casual user side and is completely ignoring the professional agencies, designers, and developers side.

Sure, build this stuff into wordpress.com where the vast majority are bloggers that would like to have these features built in, but leave them out of the .org version and allow the professional community make the decision to include it if needed.

And I don't want to hear that same old crap argument "Well, you can always disable it", again. That attitude just makes WordPress a bloated, slow platform. You know, those things professionals try to avoid to make the best experience possible.