The best part of the talk is from 1:16:00 when Pippin speaks the truth about Gutenberg: Matt is bowing down to investors to get GB out the door so that WP can remain competitive with all the existing (far better) page builders, Wix, Shopify and Squarespace.

With GutenBerg, Wordpress has been taken away from the open source community and turned into a commercialized, Microsoftian "shared source" project under the control of Matt and Money. The GB plugin is nearing 1000 1-star reviews - more than 2 times the amount of 5-stars - and Matt isn't budging. The community has absolutely no say in the project (I doubt it had any say to start off with) and no matter how many voluteers quit and how many disabled people complain, GB is being forced into core.

It's sad, but expected: all projects, communities and companies, once large enough, will eventually degrade into entities solely driven by money.

I'm looking at alternatives to Wordpress now, preparing myself for 5.0. If Matt doesn't man up and keep GB as just a plugin, WP will devolve into Just Another Corporate CMS, with everything designed by marketers and accountants. The very least thing he could do would be to just be honest about why he is forcing GB in.

Code is no longer poetry, it is now just dollars and cents.