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This PR is not ready yet but it's ready to get thoughts and designs.

Right now, it's enable for all classic themes by default, we might want to introduce a theme support flag for it to make it opt-in.

I think that would be necessary in many situations... and it should also be filterable so users can install a plugin to enable it on their old, not-updated theme. See PR #30465 for a suggestion

Thinking about the theme-support thing some more, perhaps it should be opt-out instead of opt-in? 🤔
IMO this is going to be one of the things that will get huge adoption by classic-theme users... It will allow them to use their theme for their site, while at the same time being able to build a completely custom frontpage if they so desire.
If we make it opt-in we'll be excluding a large portion of the userbase, but it is the "safer" choice because people just won't see the feature.
If we make it opt-out, then we are more inline with what we want the future of WP to be. If a theme doesn't want FSE for some reason, then they can explicitly define that.

I believe opt-out would make more sense... (updated the PR on #30465 to reflect that)

What an intriguing PR!

I am using the Twenty Twenty One theme.
I downloaded a special version of the Gutenberg plugin (Going to Checks -> clicked Gutenberg build in left sidebar -> downloaded Gutenberg plugin. Extracted and compressed it again and uploaded the special GB plugin. Additional instructions here: https://youtu.be/eJhgUjrTSF0).

Then followed the instructions added by Riad.
Create a page. I saved it as a draft. I did not see a "Create custom template" link in the sidebar. How do I proceed?

If there is a theme.json file with template parts assigned to template areas, I think those header and footer template parts should be included, but it is too early to guess if these themes will include a theme.json or not.

I think the UX needs to be improved and that the option needs to be integrated somehow with the existing "page attribute" where you select templates, but this would work for a POC and first version.

I've added an e2e test and a paragraph to docs to opt-out of this and also added some site blocks (site title, logo, tagline) to the default template.

I agree that the flows and design need to be iterated on.

What do you think. Ship it or not?

What do you think. Ship it or not?

Yes!!

Then click the green button :P

From my perspective this feature is a good one to have. Merging a bare bones version seems like a good idea. Of course there are a lot of followups based on the tests that I shared that needs to be done, but that is something one gradually can get to through various PR's. Thanks for creating the PR, Riad!