Wow. This post has about 10x the comments an average Tavern post has. That makes painfully clear how controversial the block editor still is, almost 1.5 years after it was merged into core.

I think the problem is bigger than the block editor itself. It's about WordPress, and the audience it targets. Because that audience is, well - everyone. From non-technical no-knows to seasoned developers. It's widely used for blogging, e-commerce, corporate web sites and web applications. When you make changes this big in front of so huge and diverse an audience, keeping everybody happy is hard.

This is made worse by the fact that the block editor is highly opinionated about the way people create content. It almost forces them to use blocks for that. I say almost - of course, several other commenters have already mentioned that other ways still exist, but they have been pushed to the background, into hidden sidebars or metaboxes somewhere below the main editing canvas. The block editor literally absorbs all of the editing experience.

I'm not saying that the block editor is bad. It is a great tool to create rich content with, much better than the old editor. The problem is that it seems to have become the one and only way to create content, whether you like it or not.