I personally think Gutenberg is an embarrassment and poorly executed. I remember being at Wordcamp US in 2017 when Matt really started to promote Gutenberg at the State of the Word. At the time we were building most of our websites using Divi and we just started to work with Elementor. After that State of the Word I felt like page builder days were numbered and WordPress was going to force everyone to use Gutenberg.

Here we are in 2021 and in my opinion Gutenberg isn’t even close to where Divi and Elementor were back in 2017. Since then, every few months I will try to use Gutenberg and it blows my mind how slow they are to add basic features that every page builder has had for many years.

One of the biggest reasons I don’t plan to use Gutenberg is because it’s nearly impossible to train our clients on how to use it. We build all our client websites with Elementor and we give them custom training videos on how to make edits to their website. I would never hand over a Gutenberg website to client and try to train them. It would be embarrassing and honestly I think the clients would be disappointed that we build their website on Gutenberg. Will we be using Elementor forever? Of course not, but as of right now in 2021 Elementor is the best option for our agency.