It really seems, this ship has sailed. After four years and hundreds of millions downloads, the Block editor is here to stay. It also had received a ton of updates and improvements over those years, and you might want to take another look at it.
You can certainly use the classic editor plugin and the classic widgets plugin, all also built by WordPress contributors to hide all block editor stuff and use your existing processes and tools.
I’d be happy to connect with you and discuss adoption pathways, of you change your mind.
What you don’t understand is that all of those “upgrades and enhancements” mean chasing after a never-ending stream of changing tools, documentation, retraining, updates and conflicts, and also a massive overload of clients who need retraining or are frustrated because their editor changed or mini editor tools are popping up on top of the block they thought they were working on. That was all time we used to spend building stable websites and actually making a little bit of profit so our clients could be successful, unencumbered by constant changes, on-going training and hair-pulling.
Much less the mind-bending competition between native blocks, and all of the new block builders.
This is also is why pro developers didn’t use builders in the first place. Maybe developers aren’t your target market anymore? We appreciate creativity, but as options that we can avoid if we need to build fast, simple, and stable products for high-production clients. They can’t work efficiently with a boggy mess that changes constantly and tosses editor windows in front of the text they are trying to add. It’s just too much. Please rethink where you are heading with the now-bloated WP platform–if there even is a roadmap and finish line. If you could at least just make new improvements optional, we could at least finally get back to work without the on-going stress. We will pay for options. We always have, when asked.
