In reply to Joen.

If there is one thing I have learned in all my years in this industry it is that people with complaints are always more vocal than people without.

Because of this the negative reviews on the WordPress.org plugin repository do not surprise me at all. People need to stop pointing to them as being definitive. Especially when 70% of them were submitted for versions of Gutenberg older than v0.8.0 and v0.9.0 was just released.

These people should pump the brakes and be more constructive with their ideas and/or critiques when the Gutenberg team publishes release announcements, etc.

Speaking of which I commented with my thoughts on the latest v0.9.0 build on the release announcement here:

https://make.wordpress.org/core/2017/08/18/whats-new-in-gutenberg-18th-august/#comment-32948

Also, I think the version disparity as it relates to active site statistics and reviews on the WordPress.org plugin repository also illustrate how finding a way to prod beta users to keep updated and test with the latest version of Gutenberg might be a good thing. I'm not sure what that would look like though.