In reply to Miroslav Glavic.

I frequently disagree with Scott. He seems to want to turn WP into some sort of clone of MS Word, which everyone thinks they know how to use but really don't, and which produces documents that are just awful to read.

But he does make some good points. And telling him to "fix the problem" is, frankly, ridiculous.

Here's an example. I just wrote a post that used five images. Normally, because I don't like WP's writing interface, I'd use LyX instead and inject the content into my test WP site for final polishing before copying and pasting to the live site. But this post needed little text, so I thought I'd skip Lyx this time and head straight for the my test site's editing interface.

Easy, you might think. Well, I could easily click the Add Media button to add each image to the post. But here's the thing. WP expects a rasterized image, like a JPG or PNG file. Yet these don't re-size without loss of integrity, so WP core (perhaps modified by themes) then creates several copies of each image at different sizes. Not only does this clog up the media library, it also wastes a ton of disk space. So then you need a plugin to compress them all. And a regular rasterized image doesn't look good on retina and other HD screens. So then you need a plugin to get that all working well too!

Now the real solution here is not to use rasterized images at all, but vector images, i.e. SVG files. But WP does not, by default, allow the upload of SVG images! Several people have opened tickets to get that changed, but they have always been shut down as "won't fix." So Scott couldn't fix this even if he tried. And neither, apparently, can anyone else. You have to use a plugin and hope that the developer of that plugin knows what s/he's doing.

And by the way, there's nothing in Gutenberg to improve matters. Nero keeps on fiddling while Rome burns.