In reply to Emil.
@mark k I’m not saying WP is a webapp – I’m saying the future of the web is moving in that direction and WP needs to be equipped for that. Especially considering it powers a quarter of all websites.

I’ve yet to build something using the REST API myself so you might be right but as I said I’ve certainly seen a lot of great examples of how it’s being used.

Yes people know Word but in my experience it doesn’t mean people find the visual editor easy to use at all. I personally find find the Gutenberg editor much more intuitive and easy to use but of course that’s subjective. I’m looking forward to trying it with a client to get a better idea of how it fares.

Sure, if you just need a simple blog (which I’d argue is actually not the use case for the vast majority of WP users) you might not need a lot of the additional functionality but I don’t see how the presence of these features impairs the ease of use. On every single website I’ve built I’ve had a need for some kind og block system. Maybe not for embedding videos (although occasionally I’ve also run into this use case) but e.g. for “embedding” products in a blog post, inserting a simple button, building front pages consisting of banners and heros, building a contact page with a map and form or doing something exactly like the example use case for Gutenberg. Using something like shortcodes, which is probably the only “native” WP way to achieve something like this in the content simply provides a sub-par experience.