In reply to Werner.

instead of removing it from the repository

I'm afraid you're no longer in touch with how Wordpress works nowadays. Gone are the days where the users had any say in the direction WP developed. Now all decisions are taken behind closed doors, groups created to handle governance are facades, reviews are completely ignored, and handicapped people are being told to go back into the closet (indirectly, via accessibility being completely broken and unfixable in GB).

GB will never be removed, because Matt and his investors don't want it removed. They want a piece of the Wix / Squarespace cake - which would be fine, if they would just be honest enough to admit it. Instead Matt talks about things one would expect from a PR-agency.

It's sad it has gotten this way, but in the end it's the fault of the users for accepting such behavior.

My clients are entirely unimpressed by GB, since they're used to the normal formatting buttons of a word processor, so I'll continue disabling GB for as long as I can. Or, in some cases, just use a normal page builder that has a normal text editor.