In reply to Marcus Tibesar.

LOL @marcus, i actually just deleted a long text suggesting you to read 1984 especially focus on newspeak, and explaining why, but I guess it will either fly over your head or you will not understand the similarities between 1984 and all the big censuring moves tech companies are pushing everywhere including the "everybody has to be happy" of WP.

If you would have cared about the content more than of the style, you might, instead of ranting on the style, asked yourself, why does gutenberg require double publish? And maybe you would have done some research and could have come with an explanation to educate me instead of just ranting about my style. Luckily I happened to do the research, and it seems like no one knows the exact reason, but its roots are in people on wordpress.com complaining that they accidentally publish posts, and therefor the double confirm comes from wordpress.com.
Now you should ask yourself why is publishing anything is such a problem? if it was a mistake you just unpublish it and go back to whatever you still need to do with the post.
But wordpress.com is not the same as wordpress.org, they got all the integration with FB, twitter, emails, and who knows what more, things that once triggered can not be easily undone, therefor the double publish.

Assuming that is the reason, there are other possible solutions, maybe things that are not appropriate for wordpress.com but will make much more sense than a bad UX on wordpress.org.

And here I wrote some reasonable text explaining technicalities, and do you think this will make any difference that I made the effort to anyone? no! At least when I am using the snarky exaggerated phrasing I am enjoying myself, or are you just not supposed to enjoy yourself while discussing GB?

BTW you are welcome to follow https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/9077 its been 21 hours and it haven't been closed yet so maybe there is a hope