In reply to Robert Lilly.

I like to be able to just dump all of my content (if it’s prewritten), or type the content in, and only THEN start marking it up for styling.

I absolutely 100% agree with this. And it's exactly why I prefer the block editor.

When I'm typing in content, I don't have to worry about formatting or styling, or anything like that, because the block editor handles it for me. Maybe it's a way of thought but, I don't care what the block editor does when I'm typing. It's making blocks, formatting them, etc.. None of that affects me until I am done typing and go back and do the editing phase. That's when I look and see what it has created, and use the block tools to adjust the styling and all that.

For basic text, such as this, I find the block editor is really good at doing the formatting for me. And that's what I see as the benefit of having it very simple, in in this circumstance. If somebody is leaving a forum post, then the editor simply gets out of the way and does its job. You've got the tools to adjust it later if you want. But most people don't need to. And we get better formatted responses because of that.