I wish the rollout had been a bit smoother, but I love where this is going.

i think this a downgrade to wordpress CMS. please remove this plugin from wordpress core

I might be adding issues here as I find them. One major issue is that what I see on the editor is not what displays on the live page. Is it too much to ask for an editor that does what you want? I cannot resize images. They fill the content section as it is selected and refuse to get smaller to match everything else. When choosing thumbnail it instead causes the image to keep its size and stretch to bad quality. Is this a bug? I can't crop images. What is the point of the crop button? It doesn't do anything. I even looked up tutorials on how to use it and the function would never apply in any situation I could think of. It is very hard to edit anything after content has been created. All of these popups and overlays are a headache and cover content. Moving blocks manually next to or above other blocks doesn't work. There are only 2 types of content blocks that allow for drag and drop as intended. Why is there no vertical align? You seriously call this a new and improved editor and there is no vertical align on anything? I had to install a plugin just to add in functions that were missing. This is so unacceptable. I had more features in the old editor and they were not all hidden. Deleting a block causes junk code to be added every time and sometimes it cannot be removed without screwing up the rest of my content. When I delete something I expect it to be 100% gone. Code and everything! Copying content in the code editor from one block to another causes all blocks to break despite the code structure has not been broken in any way. I have been using html for years and I know how to move code around. What happened to html? All blocks are created using a sudo code that is a new language on their own and it is not compatible with proper html. Meaning it is no longer possible to next blocks into other blocks without breaking everything. Why does it create a new block when I go to select content? Whenever I try to edit existing content or I click out of a block and try to click on it again, a new block creates itself. Why is there a 99% new block creation space wherever you click and a 1% editing space? This problem is more magnified when you need to make a new block and deselect it. Now it's lost to the code because you can no longer select it again. Viewing revision content is no longer an option. It's been completely replaced with a back button to revert changes. When I spent an hour trying to fix something and then finding out that wasn't going to work, I spend a good 10 minutes hitting the back button until all of my changes were reverted.

Auto-updated to version 5.8 of WordPress and Gutenberg killed my site. An error of type E_COMPILE_ERROR was caused in line 12 of the file /home/xxxxx/xxxxx.com/wp-content/plugins/gutenberg/lib/full-site-editing/class-wp-block-template.php. Error message: Cannot declare class WP_Block_Template, because the name is already in use. Not a fan of this happening. Not a big fan of Gutenberg anyway, it's a little too fascistic for my tastes. Now I've removed the plug-in from the file system to bring my site back online. Doubt I'll reinstall it. Massive FAIL.

Blocks as widgets, forced with new WordPress updates made me come here and say I had enough of it. First post template, now widgets, what's next?

Just made WordPress complicated. Stupid idea...