WordPress: The next Skype?

Skype has been all over the news earlier this month for retrograding its latest version.

Based on this random selected article from BBC I cloned their next year's article about WP so that they won't need to do much research:

WordPress U-turns on Squarespace-like features after complaints
3 September 2019

Automattic has announced it will remove a number of Squarespace-style features from its WordPress software.

The software giant updated WordPress in version 5 with a new editor called Gutenberg but faced criticism from users who said it was "stupid" and the "worst ever update".

Automattic said it accepted that the new features "got in the way" of the software's core uses: creating websites the easy way.

Many of the updates simply "didn't resonate" with most users, it said.

It will revert back to old Classic Editor in upcoming version 6 of the software.

When it announced version 5 major update, Automattic told the BBC: "We know this was a big change and we welcome feedback along the way.

"We're confident that as we continue to listen to users and provide updates to the app... we'll be able to keep improving the experience."

And now, WordPress design director John Doe has written in a blog: "This past year we explored some design changes and heard from customers that we overcomplicated some of our core scenarios."

WordPress was released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, as a fork of b2/cafelog. The software is released under the GPLv2 (or later) license.

But now, Wix, Medium and Squarespace all provide similar features, with many copying ideas from one another.