As an independent developer working primarily with micro businesses and non-profits, upgrading to 5.0 is going to be really, really tough sell. These shoestring organizations cannot afford to pay me to rewrite their websites, and I can't afford to do it for free.

If WooCommerce isn't ready for Gutenberg, why does Matt think everyone else is? The hard push for 5.0 seems terribly premature, and reflects a certain arrogance on the part of management.

I now longer recommend WP to new clients due to this huge uncertainty, and I will likely need to freeze existing sites to 4.9 until the dust settles and I can figure out what needs to be done to make sure my clients' sites don't break. For small businesses hosted solutions are actually a much better deal (and have been for a while) even though it means less money for me.