Im not sure what the reasoning is for pushing ahead with Gutenberg in its current state. Regardless of if you think this is the right move for Wordpress future or not, ignoring the majority of your community and forcing an editor on them that has a 2.3 score in the plugin repository is astonishing.

The backlash to Wordpress in general right now is so negative and brand damaging. Ignoring your end users & blocking out all negative comments with an 'it's not us, you're using it wrong' attitude is baffling.

You're going to cause your own userbase to splinter. It is absolute lunacy to simply put your head in the sand and plough through.

If you do your plan as a November or December WP5.0 launch with Gutenberg in core I fear Wordpress will become one of those lessons 10 years down the line you hear about... how to ruin something that powered 30% of the web at one point as some kind of teachable lesson not to make the same mistakes.

It doesn't matter if Gutenberg going into core is the right move or not at this point - Forget that - the community that makes Wordpress so amazing are feeling betrayed & disappointed...people are planning to leave to other CMS's or go to classicpress in protest.

Matt & his team have also handled this horribly from a PR perspective. This article is just another example of it.

I don't know why the human race, especially in business find it so hard to put their hands up and say 'You know what may be your right we are going to rethink this'

Good Luck Matt & the Team - your going to need it