I used to be baffled at how Gutenberg was feeling rushed along seemingly for the sake of it. I appreciated the idea and the long-term vision, but whether it's the fault of the software or not, all but the last few attempts at accomplishing even a basic task in it until now have been anxiety-inducing.

That said, I have a lot of confidence now. I say that because I want to clear the air and say I am not anti-Gutenberg. I'd always use a visual editor personally, but I know what I am doing. For people trying to solve basic problems like "I want two photos side by side on a row and I don't want to ask for your help each time," this could be great.

But my actual question is...is this new ground? This specific example in this post, and more broadly sectioning off each paragraph as a block? I am trying to think of a piece of software that is that granular. On the support forums they got very upset when people called it a page builder; so I think about Front Page, Publisher, InDesign...for text-and-image combos, this feels unintuitive.

That said, text does always get its own box in things like that, but images are separate, or if you try to fuse them they have the capacity to do sophisticated wraps (like circles and paths and things) instead of just floats.

I guess that gets to your last point. Send it out as is, and if and when people mutiny, we figure out what will be more workable but still honors the spirit of the project.