Thanks so much for highlighting this hallway hangout and the original post. For what it's worth, I feel like the framing of the post and my efforts related to these problems are continuing to get lost. I didn't move on from the Outreach Program and I'm deeply passionate about being part of the solution to these problems. I helped it evolve alongside where the work has evolved: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/09/07/evolving-the-fse-outreach-program/ I'm very grateful to have other folks who have stepped up and reimagined it as just "outreach" (of which I'm still involved). The overlapping problems post in and of itself was an effort to bring together big, high level trends that I regularly chat about with various contributors (including Fabian, Matias, Rich, and more! Lots of prior hallway hangouts cover these topics) into one place so that, when we look at new features or how to polish the experience, there's an overarching lens to think through. I see it as a framing for when we look at different possible solutions. I didn't write it from a place of "being in the dark". I wrote it from a place of reporting back after exploring as many nooks and crannies as I could in the Site Editor from as many perspectives as possible. I still do that work to this day, even as I'm not running the FSE Outreach Program. The difference is that I used to do these kinds of high level posts as part of the Outreach Program: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/05/31/high-level-feedback-from-the-fse-outreach-program-may-2022/

What this Hallway Hangout made clear was that the Core Team is still very dedicated to working on these overlapping issues with the Site Editor.

This makes me so happy to read because I know I was able to write this post because of many conversations with folks across the community, whether reading GitHub comments, X posts, watching someone use the Site Editor, or IRL. We hear you. We are working hard to solve these issues. We feel the urgency. If you read the post and found your concerns reflected in it, that's because we are very much listening and have heard your feedback. Please keep sharing and join in. As I mentioned at the end, these are hard problems to solve and there's a reason there aren't "easy answers" when you take into account BC and the myriad of ways WordPress is used. I can't wait to move to better problems to solve (there will always be problems) and write another version of the post in the future.

While we may not immediately resolve these overlapping problems in the overall experience, the fact that there are core contributors willing to talk openly about the Site Editor’s shortcomings is a sign of progress towards a goal I think we can all agree on

For anyone interested, there are many conversations where we have been chatting about exactly this for the 3.5 years of the FSE Outreach Program: https://make.wordpress.org/test/tag/fse-hallway-hangout I hope we always continue to strive to make it better and I hope more folks share how we can do so. This isn't a new willingness -- this is a continued effort that I hope more people can start to feel and explore.