In reply to Sascha P..

Yes it is terrible, but terrible like they say democracy is terrible: “the worst form of government, except for all the others”. Having worked with some of the other CMSs myself and worked with clients who had to use other CMSs, WP is definitely less terrible. The tragedy of WP was that it was making good progress at not being terrible.

Alas, WP got derailed twice. First Customizer grabbed most of the attention that should have been directed at making WP less terrible. Not only was it a major distraction, but it didn’t even get finished before another, bigger distraction arrived. With Gutenberg WP development really ran off the rails. Virtually nobody is now working on making WP less terrible. And Gutenberg has made WP more terrible because it expects the entire WP community to become beta testers. It is far from being ready for release into a production environment, but here we are.

The best way to make WP not terrible is to Disable Gutenberg and scour the internet for plugins and patches. I should not need to have 67 plugins installed, but I need to. Many of these plugins accomplish simple functions that should be easily achieved via a preference setting or a button to provide a simple affordable gift. For example, to set the default posts display to just show published posts, or to add custom style buttons to the posts editor, or a button to duplicate a post.