In reply to Justin Tadlock.

The only statistics that I could find were on gutenstats.blog (but the site doesn't say anything about who compiled it, how recent the data is, etc. - it DOES say that the numbers come from wordpress.com and Jetpack enabled sites) there are 44 million Block Editor installs.

That would be a little less than 10% of an estimated 455 million WordPress installations (according to a Feb 28 blog post at whoishostingthis.com).

I tried moving the toolbar, but it doesn't change the one thing that completely drives me nuts, namely, that each paragraph and heading is turned into its own block, instantly.

The best for distraction free writing I could come up with was to compose & draft in a "Classic Editor" block, and then at the end convert that to blocks and perhaps fine-tune the layout, if necessary (which it usually isn't). That, I figured, kind of defeats the purpose of having the Block Editor in the first place... :P