In practice our population times have increased by over a third. Technically it is costing us more to develop now on WordPress. This should be a purely optional feature for bloggers and users who use basic functions. It is terrible if you use WordPress for anything more complicated. Its clunky and just gets in the way. Our population team hates it profusely.

I have first tried out Gutenberg as it was just starting with the very first official version. I liked the idea but ... this was first step and it was a pain to use it. So after some tries I went back to Classic Editor and forgot Gutenberg. I imagine, many other users went the same way. Now I just switched to new scheme for my blog and got an issue, because the theme recommended to install some plugins, which I did and then was surprised by having problems with my old classic widgets. This let me give a new try with Gutenberg and ... voilá. It's just what I did expect some years ago and a lot more, and ... a lot more to come. No problem with old posts, because they all are now automatically converted into single Classic blocks without any harm. But I can update them and add other blocks as I can create a new post just using blocks from the start. I know, I will need time to learn the plenty of features Gutenberg has to offer, but I'm completely happy with this new editor and will never get back to Classic (but it's still possible, of course, with a Classic Editor plugin. I'm very surprised to see a handful of negative reviews and not too many users. I can recommend everyone. Give it a try. It's great. You don't need hours to start using it. If you don't like it, the way back is simple. But you will like it after you compile your first new post using it. And then take you time to learn all the new features. Right after the first try you can do more than it was possible with Classic Editor. And then it's up to you, what you will want to add and how fast. Good luck and big thanks to CONTRIBUTORS 🙂

This is an awesome initiative by the WordPress collaborators. It was not easy to learn it, but now I can achieve anything that could be done with Elementor, WP Bakery or related. And this is still in Phase 1 out of 4. Looking forward to more awesome features. (It has good speed, but can be improved as well)

And this one is the worst as it's thrown down our throats. There's already plenty of other builders on the market so Automattic should have: a) focus on fixing WordPress core many issues b) made it optional and allowed to easily switch between this and classic editor.

WordPress, what did you do ? Your editor is like a gas factory. Can you imagine someone who lost precious written content each 10 minutes, because switching between Visual and Code Editor doesn't reflect the change between these two interface. Also, (auto) saving is crashing almost each 5 - 10 minutes, required to refresh the whole page doing some copy-past of the source code to not lose content. And here is only 2 bugs from a dozen I experiment. I wait a long time before switching to Gutenberg but it was anyway too early.