In reply to Thiago.

I am super curious about what the last two phases are, though. The first two seem like playing catch-up to other platforms, except I was not aware of that drastic of a desire to change (doesn't mean there wasn't one, just that I managed not to hear about it)...and also, it's not as good as what's already out there that it's trying to mimick.

I've used it when it was a plugin maybe four or five times and I just did the real-live full update and tried to put a picture right-aligned to my paragraph. I was able to do it in less than a minute, but the way I do things in Classic takes four.

Granted, I had to be taught that at one time, too, or learn it myself. But back then it was "click the image, then click the align button." Then I remembered it forever and it always took four seconds.

With Gutenberg, even though I know how to do it now, it's twice as long to do as it needs to be, and I don't want to because it takes me out of the whole experience. Classic was the speed of thought, uninhibited. This madness is like those technical manuals you see translated something from another language and then back to English word for word.

They ask for feedback, like "Well, what would you do differently then? How can me make it easier?" But "going backward" isn't an acceptable answer because there's a "vision" going on.

This is my job, so I'll support WP till the sun explodes, but when it comes to making my own site I'd rather build it from scratch than deal with something that is still a drag to use even when it works properly and you know what you're doing.