I couldn’t agree more. I’ve no idea what the designers were thinking except that they probably saw the popularity of some block editors and figured it was a good bandwagon to jump on. But it’s not well done at all. Not intuitive, not easy to visualize how your page is going to look. The ‘preview’ command doesn’t preview anything properly. As a CMS, which is what WP originally was, it’s abysmal.
The allure of previous block editor plugins was that we could always use the classic editor if and when we wanted to, and the block editors worked within the Classic editor framework. Take away that framework and it’s freefall through white space.
I’ve downloaded a plugin to revert my pages back to classic on all the sites I manage, and am looking at learning how to customize html themes in Django/Python. Time to broaden my horizons and this is a great prompt to do that.
I’ve been using the block editor for a few months and am not impressed. I often switch to the classic editor to get things done.
I hope WordPress will continue to support the classic editor indefinitely because all my none techie clients find the block editor more difficult to use.
I was in a couple different betas for a company that was releasing an OS that had a lot of dramatic changes to it… as if my desktop is/was a tablet or a phone. Long story short, there were thousands of us in that beta who pointed out a myriad of things that were not intuitive. The “powers that be” whether through ego/arrogance… just plowed forward with their garbage product despite every participant in their betas vocalizing about the bad design. Their product was not received well, and they had to immediately release newer versions and provide explanations how to revert the OS interface back to its more traditional layout. Ring any bells? This plugin has exceeded 5 million active installations. .. *points to writing on the wall*
