In reply to Justin Tadlock.

The thing is, it isn't just that you can't cut and paste from two paragraph blocks it is that one and half years into this that still hasn't been fixed.

Gutenberg broke editing for many people who like to write.

I design websites sometimes and as a designer I get the block idea. But I write a lot too and mentor others who write using wordpress and Gutenberg is unusable as an editor for me and for them.

Although I'm always grateful to have WordPress at all, the response to this critical break in a core funtion (ie that you can't edit text with the new editor) has been completely tone deaf. There's no wonder people hate it. They feel as though they've been treated as though end users just don't matter.

Gutenberg acceptance won't improve until that is mended.

So far as I'm concerned, WordPress ships with an editor which doesn't, at a basic functional level, work.

And no-one is listening.