In reply to Matt Mullenweg.

@Greg Schoppe,

Your point is surely the most fundamental and most important on here. And yet I see no-one addressing it.

I am also aware that you have raised similar points before, and you didn't get much of a response then either.

That lack of any meaningful response is one of two things that really concern me about Gutenberg.* If would-be core developers cannot address basic engineering issues like this, then what sort of house of cards are they building? And why would anyone want to base their business on it?

We all know that WordPress has been criticized for years for its "spaghetti code." Some of that criticism is, of course, either outdated or else has just become a rather tired riff. But that's hardly an excuse for creating such code now.

[*The other is, of course, the license issue: React has no place in an open source project.]