In reply to Charles Tutt.

I agree Charles. Constructive criticism is one thing, but being negative and sarcastic is so off putting.

Here are some of the sarcastic, defensive, profane or just plain mean remarks made by the commenters on this post:

"Based on the work we have seen from the Gutenberg team up until now i have zero confidence in their ability deliver what the community wants. They are too preoccupied with delivering what (they think) the community “needs”."

"(seriously, why the f**k do I need to approve that I want to publish, who came with the idiotic idea instead of realizing that the UX has gone horribly wrong if you have to have such a functionality)."

"Seems very impressive. I am sure all SEO people will be excited that they have 23.5 pixels to do their work when they have 235 in the classic editor."

"Maybe some careful reading of what I said will prevent the need to put words in my mouth. I said it is disappointing because they had more than a year to provide something and all they have done is this."

I ask all the commenters to be civil and constructive to one another, to Yoast and to the WP Tavern and its readers. Let's uplift the community instead of tearing it down whenever you can make cheap shots on a blog.