I find this statement here: "...it’s important to recognize that these kinds of refinements to interactions take time to percolate..." to be quite incongruent considering how fast and furiously Gutenberg in its highly flawed state was forced onto users with no option to avoid it unless we installed some OTHER plugin to get rid of it.

Our company currently uses Disable Gutenberg to get rid of Gutenberg, and I am actively following the Classic Press fork, as well as pushing for a complete redesign to get away from Wordpress--due to what the "team" did by forcing this terrible block interface onto users. What a disaster--and I suspect it is the reason why Wordpress was noted as the most dreaded platform by developers this year.