In reply to Joen.

Should the north star really be to impress people who have never used WordPress before? Statements like this are the exact reason for the anxiety within the community. It sounds like you’re only focused on attracting new users instead of serving your existing ones.

It's not about impressing people, it's about making sure when our kids grow up and want to start writing or building a site, they'll seriously consider using WordPress instead of instantly jumping ship to walled garden offerings by Facebook or Google. It's about considering the user experience from the perspective of someone who's never used WordPress before, in hopes that we can make it easier to perform basic tasks.

I'm sorry you got the impression that we were ignoring old users at the expense of new users. We're working hard to make sure the user experience is actually better than the current experience, in ways that matter to all users. That includes thinking about how we can accommodate existing users and sites, as Matías noted in his comment on the thread. We're not there yet, I concede that.