I really do not understand the heavy resistance to Gutenberg, I have not tried it yet but looked at videos of people demonstrating it, then recently was very surprised about the many many negative reviews on the plugin. Many are because its just not ready yet but there are also many who actually seem to like the tinyMCE experience, that really shocked me because its sooo outdated, basically everyone else has something better.

I expect people, as so often in tech do not like change. Reminds me of Windows 8 where so many people stubbornly kept using outdated windows versions because of the stupid start menu. Its actually a horrible example because that tablet focused fullscreen start menu was actually not really good or innovative for desktops but what I did was just pin the apps I wan't to use to the taskbar and went on with my computing and laught at all the others complaining, rarely even used the startmenu. I switched to linux now anyway ...

I was not around when WYSIWYG was introduced but Matt mentioned that it was very controversial back then, that does not surprise me at all. I expect the it will be similar with Gutenberg, eventually people will come to like it. I expect it to be very extensible, there will be plugins for custom fields, and all the good things, people just worry to much while they look at a unfinished thing.

Anyway from what I have seen I really like Gutenberg and I think if WP can compete with all this modern fancy new FAST and snappy editors services and other software like Ghost use thats fantastic. I really hate this slow loading outdated bloated mess that tinyMCE brings. I love the idea of blocks, it will make WP feel more like a layout tool rather that being constrained or the need for 3rd party "builders". Whats not to like where non programmers can design beautiful articles like many of the modern sites do. Gutenberg will make the web look better that is for sure.

But what really bothers me is the situation with the React license. I think that is really what should not land in core. Gutenberg should be build with Vue.js or some React alternative/drop in replacement with a true open source license, and also a true open source community behind it. I really think React should be avoided because if its license and also because FB controls it.