In reply to Ray Peacock.

Just now, I tried to make a quick post on one of my oldest WP sites, and that frickin' gutenberg editor starts chopping things up into blocks, with no intuitive way to fix the screwups that it made. This was one site I wanted to try the new editor on, but all I have gotten is complaints from my staff on how terrible an editing experience it is.

I was willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and give it a fair shake, but no. Just no. This is an experience...a poorly executed user experience that kills productivity. This is typical of software developed by developers, for developers--not end users. Yes, WP has sunk to that level now.

This gutenberg nonsense has essentially ruined WordPress. What a trainwreck for us content authors! If they seriously do something as utterly stupid as dropping the classic editor, we will be bailing for something else. Hopefully someone will get the idea to fork WordPress from the 4.9 version and create one without gutenberg baked into it.

WordPress has officially jumped the shark with gutenberg.

I had trusted WP would always remain true to its roots and let us stick to authoring good content. Not screwing around with blocks that none of my staff has even a remote interest in using.

Look, Microsoft Word has been around for decades. People still use it. It's the gold standard for creating and editing content meant for printing. WordPress was the online equivalent of that. You could sit down in front of either one, hammer out a few paragraphs or an entire tome, if you wanted to. This gutenberg mess just sticks us in something more like Microsoft Publisher, which not surprisingly 1) is not made for long-form content and 2) has a similar "block" operating mode.

I think gutenberg is made for amateurs who have nothing better to do but dick around all day making pretty pages. Keep the classic editor for those of us who actually create and write content. Expect a mass exodus of users from WP once the Classic Editor plugin goes away, present company included.

I'm all ears if someone forks WP and gets back to basics. I gave gutenberg its fair shake in a production environment and it is a total sham. It needs to go away.

To Automattic, and Matt, the WordPress developers and everyone else--stop gaslighting us. This is a productivity killer, and in one stroke you now just alienated most of your loyal user base. We won't be sticking around to see how badly this will end. WordPress will become the Wordperfect of online publishing before long.