In reply to Josepha Haden.

@Josepha,

Thanks for your assurances..., since I first posted, I found out about the efforts with the Meta Boxes, Still though, it is inexcusable for such a big issue that made it in an official beta release, same goes with the custom buttons in the Classic Block.

I already found a working solution for the Editor width, which I can share it freely here if anyone is interested.

Now the bad stuff. Not having the Gutenberg deactivation filter, is very frightening to a person like me, because the "Classic Editor" plugin is basically made by Automattic, and the moment they decide to stop updating it (and act like Microsoft, which in a way they already are), our freedom of choice will disappear, which is extremely ironic, since WordPress talks about the "freedoms" that the users have, and at the same time, their motto is "decisions, not options".

As a theme developer, I loved the idea of having an option in the theme customizer to have the site Admin decide if he/she wants Gutenberg or not, and not having to install yet another relatively huge plugin to do the same.

Nevertheless, a huge reason why the Gutenberg ratings are so low, is that the customization documentation is lacking, and in many cases out of date, and things are changing all the time. I spent months adjusting and fixing things, and with almost every Gut. version, things move around and change, with no or very little communication how to fix our themes and plugins all over again. And here we are almost November, days before WP 5.0 and if we update, there is a good chance that our clients will look at us like we are complete idiots.

I now love the possibilities and the idea of Gutenberg, but my God, bring along the theme and plugin developers and act like a "community project" as it's supposed to be, only then the approvals will increase, drastically.

Thanks again...