In reply to Peter Cralen.

They're not designed to compete with each other. WPForms solves an problem that Syed did a pretty good job outlining on his post, which is that basic, beginner users find a ton of friction with using a lot of the existing form plugins. Beginner users most of the time just want a simple contact or misc form with a couple fields but don't want to take the effort to make them in the existing builders. As Jeff points out that requires comparatively a ton of effort to do.

I see people send tickets to EDD quite a bit where they're new to WordPress, and they heard it was easy to make "x" feature, and they get frustrated, that even though they can make "x" with "y", it takes a lot of effort. If you've used Gravity Forms before, you probably find it relatively intuitive. I love it, and I use it all over the place. But for a brand new user, who just 1 click installed their first WordPress site ever, the value in this type of plugin isn't that you can do whatever, its you can make a mvp contact or other form quickly, like the way you can with Jetpack forms. As opposed to offering tools that enable the user to eventually solve a problem ("how do I make a contact form"), this form plugin solves it the other way around ("here's some predefined solutions to common problems; as opposed to starting from scratch and tweaking along the way, its more like here's a common default, tweak it to your needs").

I'd also bare in mind this is version 1 of a new plugin. Gravity Forms certainty didn't support all the features they currently do in version one.