In reply to Steve Wilkinson.

If the word processors were to switch to this, based on what I've seen in Gutenberg, they'd be a nightmare.

I've checked out Wix and don't want it. I like my simple editor. I set up a test site with Gutenberg and played around a bit, and already I'm finding things I don't like at all, things which affect how I use my site every day.

Such as, I can't change the color of two words in a block for emphasis; the entire block changes color unless I use Classic Editor block. I don't see my list of revisions from the Simple Revisions plugin, something I use every day to clean up my database. I have the TinyMCE plugin to add in features that WP has taken out over the last few years; I can't use that, either, without the Classic Editor block. So might as well stick with the Classic Editor (except that it'll only be supported for 3 years).

I have seen blog posts which probably used something like Wix or Gutenberg, and it worked well for them. But these are, say, how-to posts, or image-heavy posts, or posts with pull-quotes. I don't do posts like that. (I didn't even know what a pull-quote was until yesterday.) My focus on my website is simple and minimal, light on images and animated gifs and sidebars, which I find very distracting and annoying on other sites.

The problem is we don't get a choice of one editor or the other based on our individual needs--and over time our menus and widgets will also change to these dratted blocks whether we like it or not. I'm considering going to ClassicPress, except that I wonder if my plugins will work in the long run when the authors adjust them to Gutenberg.