Does not work, Not recommended with all the number of bad reviews, I decided to give it a try, but I wasted my time, guys you will need to work more on this.

I WANT HIS NAME. Who's even worse idea is to force us to use it? I WANT HIS NAME TOO. IT'S AWFUL. LEAVE US ALONE TO DO OUR OWN THING.

I came back to WP after an extended break, updated site, theme broken, and come to find out that "Gutenberg" is now the default post & page editor in WP. Politely put: my mind is blown! This is beyond terrible. If this was in WP in the early days, it would have never gotten off the ground. This is the equivalent of using a MS Zune with Windows 10 UI, hide everything that you need, try to do something, you can't see what it is doing, what it shows in the editor does not render properly on screen ... default theme, simple post, one small photo, three times it published the photo at half width relative to the height, simple line breaks and paragraphs, 2/3 of them removed, ... WTF?! In all my life and first using a computer ~40 years ago I have never seen such an abomination and text mangling. I literally have NO idea how in the world this got elevated to the default editor. It should not have gone beyond alpha or beta. Not having traditional UI elements in a text editor is just bonkers. And, you are putting the name Gutenberg to shame. I can actually set letter type and print the old fashioned way faster than I can make a simple post in WP and get the result with a bit of basic markup the way I intended!!! I simply have nothing positive to say about the implementation and execution; despite the fact that I can from a technical aspect see what the goal was. Except that it was not necessary and should have been an opt-in. Not a default. If somebody with 30 years of computer experience can't work this thing ... how is an average user who may give posting abilities supposed to use it properly? If you need a new manual to put some text on a blog or site. It is a FAIL. Rant over.

Why did you people ever create this in the 1st place?

First, I appreciate that this is free, and thanks to all the shoulders WordPress is built upon. Now about Gutenberg in particular - I have some websites made with content management plugins/themes - I thought perhaps these could be moved to Gutenberg and relieve my clients from subscriptions fees for themes/plugins. Gutenberg lacks a lot of very basic layout control. It does not provide an alternative to paid/supported content management systems. If you are designing your site first (so that it encompasses the brand, content, etc) and then building the website to reflect those goals, Gutenberg seems almost unuseable. If you are choosing a template/theme first, then stuffing your content in as best as you can, Gutenberg is useable. It feels like using Adobe Pagemill back in the day, with the convenience but very limited control of the final result. I work in print and web - I am amazed that after all these years, there isn't something like InDesign for websites. Wordpress and other web layout systems feel like there is more emphasis on tech wizardry under the hood, than on creative layout/content/presentation for the end viewer. Instead of user-friendly management windows/boxes to control and set everything, we have very basic placement settings, and real control can be exercised only through adding lines of css or editing template code. That seems ridiculous at this point in time. It would be helpful if, instead of just loudly promoting what it can do (which is all good), WordPress et al would also loudly state up front what it can't do. Could save a lot of time for people trying to make websites. So I'm back to the subscriptions and classic. Best of luck with Gutenberg, but seriously, maybe its not ready yet. Once there is a complete UI for everything designers need, that would be a better launch time, and would mark an improvement over what has so far been available for web layout.

The worst thing that happened to wp.