In reply to James Tryon.

Indeed my comment was meant as broad strokes and a criticism of wordpress/gutenbloat/automattic and not just your plugin, and not people individually.
While you added some details that showed reasons to trust your crew, you actually made the spotlight much bigger in the core problems with core and the conflicts that are not taken seriously.
(I also wish you added the ‘per year’ and ‘per site’ to your comment)

The fact that a core contributor and doc writer for gutengerg would release an expensive plugin to add basic things that should ship with the core package (since gutenberg is forced, not an optional addin as so many of us have said it should be) – it’s kind of mind boggling from this side of the glass frankly.

Maybe Matt can pay the $250 per year for unlimited sites and include it with the next core update so we have something else to add to the performance issues, and we can be saved from writing 3 lines of css, or paying a core developer to not exclude basic things which can be charged for.

It makes me wonder if the existence of this plugin will mean that we won’t get backgrounds options in core blocks and visibility settings for device sizes of blocks and backgrounds.

Again this is about WP, not your specific thing.

I hope your thing is successful and you all get rich and keep it up to date and don’t sell out – that’ll be great.

If I was looking for the ‘special effects, animations, and custom CSS for every block.’ – and could know that they could be triggered on entering the view port – it may save me from installing another plugin ( Animated Blocks on Scroll ) – on a few sites – so I would consider it – just to try to reduce the bloat and having too much dang JS loading to show a page.

For now I can get by with the astra theme pro options and generate blocks to do the things I had assumed would of been on the roadmap for gutenberg and coming soon.

I had no idea that we’d be seeing an expensive per year plugin from some of the core devs to handle some basics, and so I continue to weep for WP.