It's quite clear to see that version 5.0 has been an absolute mess from start to finish. Usually I'd be quite sympathetic but the sheer amount of problems people are having with it thus far and considering it's supposed to released as 'stable' in a couple of weeks is beyond worrying.

I used to be a 'Gutenberg supporter' but at this point it's clear to see that the motive for rushing the release is because of Automattic/Matt here. There's always been a large favouring towards WordPress.com but with Gutenberg's imminent inclusion it's even more obvious there's an agenda at play here.

I'm happy to see Gutenberg merged in. It's going to happen anyway, but it can't be merged in this quickly as it's causing so many problems. I find it insulting that Gutenberg gets fast tracked yet Dark Mode, the feature plugin I made which adds a new CSS file to the dashboard get rejected because it didn't follow and pass all merge proposal checks... at least it had a merge proposal written.

The Gutenberg team straight up lied about having a public merge proposal done for it. It's things like this that are driving high profile contributors away from the project (I'm definitely not one of them by any means, But Rian from the A11y team and John from the Core team are to name but two people).

Matt, Gary; don't forget about the community you helped build here. It's not helping anyone.