I'd be curious to hear what you think about our grid block. We gave it sensible default settings and provided section templates to show the use of the various settings, or a user could start from scratch.

Our issue is, we developed our plugin and released it on WordPress.org in October 2019, before patterns existed--so keeping the plugin up to date with the latest Gutenberg markup changes has been time-consuming. Hard to innovate when we're merely trying to keep up with WP and our clients' demands.

We developed our grid system and blocks plugin as part of overhauling all of our WordPress themes with no idea of what the long term plans were for blocks. Our blocks work as part of the design system. (Or themes) We did try to be conscious of using existing blocks where we could, including extending some of their functionality where possible. We also made our blocks work with 2019/2020 WP themes, but that includes appending the CSS for a grid system if you activate it so that the responsiveness works well.

I merely wanted to chime in and say I can sympathize with Aino's scenario and the development decisions they made because we too made many of those same choices.

It'll be easier going forward now that we have an idea of the direction of blocks. I'm starting to think of blocks in more complex layouts with combinations of animations/features/settings that you can't replicate with core blocks, which is beginning to 'make sense' more for me, at least.

I know in general, blocks have made our clients' websites much easier for them to manage--which is what we're all aiming for anyways--and I look forward to seeing how full site editing, universal settings, and some sort of sensible blocks library and sensible presets begins to come together as a whole for the ecosystem.