Hey Justin,

Thank you for sharing about this exciting update of my plugin. This is encouraging and keeps small developers like me motivated. 🙌

I get your feedback and opinion regarding the 'one-off slider.'

I did it because I personally experienced the difficulties in creating slides with a small area of a block and then other difficulties, such as managing, etc., that I shared with you. Additionally, I also have more advanced features planned that require this approach.

That said, I agree that sometimes you only need a one-off slider, and I will think about it.

I also wanted to cater to those users who currently use other slider builders and now adopting Gutenberg. This separate interface feels & works similar to those, except it doesn't bring a custom slider builder but uses Gutenberg editor. This makes Block Slider light and easy to use compared to those.

Also, I wanted to make the slide creation easy and intuitive. As you may notice, I've already put some effort into that. However, there is still room for improvement.

There are also some hidden features added to this separate interface like you can drag-n-drop images, videos, or mix to the bottom bar, which would create/add slides automagically.

And most importantly, as we know, there are still other page builders dominating WordPress. I wanted to cater to those users, too, encouraging them to try Gutenberg. Thus, with the Block Slider plugin, you create sliders using Gutenberg editor but can use them anywhere and with any page builder.

So that's a little background to why I changed this approach to this plugin. But, there is much room for improvement, and I will note every feedback from the excellent WPTavern audience.

Thanks