In reply to Jay C. Mailen.

"Personally I wouldn’t use it, but I only use the old editor in text mode anyway, so my personal opinion doesn’t really matter when it comes to the product."

Hi, Jay! Thanks for your insights.

What is your plan for going forward? Will you leave WP? Will you use the Classic Editor plugin? If yes, what will you do when it's deprecated in a couple of years?

I like writing in WP in Markdown. Classic suited me well. It seems ridiculous to take my fingers off the keyboard just to make something bold, italic, or a simple link. Gutenberg doesn't necessarily seem bad, but I don't see any advantage to it, and at least for now, it takes away the way I liked to write and requires me to do a lot of mousing just to write what was previously all keyboard work.