In order for people to freely express themselves Gutenberg has to work.

I have run into numerous small businesses and NGOs who once they contacted a so-called web designer are amazed at the work I do for them (at a discount) with WordPress.

There is no other platform I would even consider using to do that work given the time constraints of “my day job” which Is based entirely on WooCommerce- another Automattic product.

150% growth year over year in six figures using WooCommerce would not have been possible using Magento, BigCommerce, or Shopify.

And I consequently would not have been able to do work for those NGOs and small businesses at a discount.

Content is still the king and queen of e-Commerce and the mobile web. It will go to whatever platform makes it possible.

I spend a lot more on Google than other search engines, because of ROI- not the codebase, not the APIs, not the personal preferences I may have- because of the data and the user experience.

“If for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.” - Steve Jobs

We all need to, including myself, get on our damn keyboards and rachet this thing up or we are going to be MySpace.

Matt and the team at Automattic gave me a lifestyle and a living I would never have had an opportunity to have otherwise (basically for free) and now we’re doing it for plug-in developers and agencies?

Perdona me, I designed the logo on the door people walk through to go to work everyday. I created that business thanks to WordPress and WooCommerce.

I train people we hire weekly on how to use WordPress. It simply is not feasible to sacrifice the needs of the many for the needs of the few if we want to live in a world where small businesses and NGOs make a difference in peoples lives- and Gutenberg, perhaps by default, is the only realistic viable solution.