In reply to Nyssa The Hobbit.

Let’s point the elephant in the room, although I am sure this comment won’t be published.

By trying to make things easier for the ecosystem with replacing tons of plugins made by devs with blocks that can be customized by the end user, WP actually the new editor “harder” for the average user.

Currently you have two type of people working with the CMS, usually that is the company that builds the site – devs, coders, WordPress technical experts, marketers, designers, and there is another group – the people that would actually use the site for publishing – bloggers, creators, writers, journalists, artists, news editors, commentators, reviewers etc.

By creating Gutenberg, they tried to blend these together and they cannot be one thing most of the time.

If the first group is the people that build your house and put the furniture inside, the second group is the people that live in that house. These, in most cases, are two different groups!

That’s why it would make total sense to have two distinguished modes, one is to [build] the site and the other mode should represent the [writer’s mode]. One is almost a one-time thing, a more static approach that happens one more several times in large periods, the second is something that happens frequently.

You can’t force a journalist to use a non-standard text editor with block building to write their content. Look at this comment field – it is a known from the 80s word processing experience, email client experience, office doc writing experience, text writing experience that everyone is familiar with.

If you force a news editor, a journalist to write his content in blocks instead of the familiar experience from 40 years, then you are alienating him.

Just ask any journalist out there, any professional writer, if they find an experience of “building” their content better than “writing” their content.

Gutenberg should split in two modes! And no, Iceberg is too glitchy and slow to do the trick!