Last week we published a post urging W3C to revisit Gutenberg for a fair shake against the proprietary CMS’s or consider adopting another open source option.

The burden of convincing should be on WP and the Gutenberg team, not on the agency building the website. Gutenberg was released almost 2 years back and has had all this time to establish its credentials. Purely as a developer I have liked the concept of a block – WP was in need of a standardized way to get around the mess of shortcodes left behind by builders and plugins, and blocks offer a pretty clean solution for that.

What has always rankled though is the extreme presumption that Gutenberg is what the world of users really desires. To that end the Gutenberg UI has been built with shortcomings that make one think of Balmer Peak (https://xkcd.com/323/).

This decision should serve as a rude wake-up call for the powers that be. It is OK to be protective of your baby, and your baby indeed might be better than others at reciting the alphabet. But if you are expecting your baby to master calculus in infancy, you need a reality check.