I'm a Sophomore in a small community college and have been in a Wordpress course for almost three semesters, or 4 quarters.

I also work as an intern on the weekends for a large web design company, not so much as to make money, but for the experiences in the web design and development aspects of it. The company I intern for is well vested into the corporate web design world and Wordpress.

In September, when I returned to college and my internship, Gutenberg was the main topic in both places. In our college classes our instructor took several of our classes trying to explain Gutenberg to us. She, nor the 25 of us in the class were not impressed with it.

We have a VPS that a hosting company donated for us to use and manage it for us to build and test our sites on. Our instructor ask us to install Gutenberg on our sites we had been working on going into the third semester. She told us to try and remain calm once we saw the results. Once we installed and activated it on our sites, to us, looked like shattered stained glass.

No doubt we all went into upset and confusion mode. Out instructor laughed and said not to worry. She sent a support ticket to the hosting company and they reinstalled our sites from their backups once we had deleted Gutenberg from our sites. She had asked them to make new backups and when she told them why, they understood and said this is an everyday thing with them now because of Gutenberg.

Our instructor had a meeting with the Dean last week and the decision was made to cancel the Wordpress class until a new CMS would be ready after the first of the year, and all of us now know the the name of the new CMS we'll be working with. Very sad that we've lost 3 semesters with a wonderful CMS that we'll no longer be working with because something as pitiful to us as Gutenberg.

The business I intern with has also made the decision to move all of their corporate and business clients to a new CMS and thankfully, it's the one we'll start working with next semester. That assured me a continued internship with this company and they've told me not to worry, we've got your back covered.

I'm not here to make anyone mad, and it's your right to disagree with me. I'm just a kid wanting a future in this business. Everyone I know in this business, and I've met many wonderful designers and developers, are all turning their backs on Wordpress now because of Gutenberg and the arrogance the developers seem to be showing.

Everyone of of us would probably stay with Worpress if it was made a stand along plugin and not be forced on us. It seems it's not going to happen so I've lost a year and a half learning something that is now useless to me. My mind has to change gears now and go with another CMS so I can continue my dream to become a pro web designer and developer and keep an intern job I love and look forward to every weekend.

I wish everyone a safe, blessed and happy holiday season.