In reply to Jeremy.

Thank you, Jeremy, for being on top of this.

I believe that you should highlight in the blocks that the wp.com servers are required to make them of any use. For sanity, you hide the blocks when such a connection isn’t available. To help ease with integration, the user may already fill in the details, etcetera.

As of now, from the images, it shows there’s an incentive to make the editor a marketplace. It is why it’s received so negatively.

We still have bad tastes in our mouths from the imposed Gutenberg release last December, let us water that down first (by fixing the code editor, tyvm) before adding more to that.