In reply to Joseph.

I work as a contractor for one of the biggest WordPress agencies in the world, have worked there for 8 years, which routinely leads WordPress releases. In the agency world usually you wait 1-2 years before embracing new stuff, like Gutenberg or FSE, mostly for this kind of reasons. WordPress.com lives and breathes with agency work, all the WordPress ecosystem revolves around agency work I would say, the complex thing to balance is exactly the opposite, not lagging behind because agency work needs stability: that’s why WordPress core is so behind in Headless