All really great points. Thanks for sharing and for your patience.
There are some recent improvements coming that you might be excited about. For one, we’re introducing a Navigation and Edit mode. You’ll be able to use the keyboard to navigate more easily through the blocks, or switch by hitting <Enter> on a block to edit it. There are other options too like the “Fullscreen Mode” which gets rid of a lot of the UI or other distractions. Have you tried that out?
@mapk I think WordPress still doesn’t understand the actual lesson here. You can’t force users to forget everything they learned about (MS Word and similar dominated) content creation over the past 30 years, and expect that everyone just accepts what ‘you’ think is best for them.
The concept may be better from a technical point of view, but it still doesn’t meet users’ expectations. By ignoring the actual customers’ requirements to the extent that you’re doing here, WordPress is almost guaranteed to fail. No hack fix will change that.
Feel free to build a block editor as an optional feature and it ‘may’ get the expected user acceptance over a long long period of time if you do everything right, but *never* ever push new stuff down users’ throats against their will. By your actions you’re opening up a massive market niche that would be easily avoidable.
From a management perspective, it’s high time to fire the managers that are responsible for the Gutenberg fiasco.
If you don’t listen to the users who spend (waste?) their precious time writing you well intended feedback on the forums, look at least at the numbers.
Aren’t “300,000+ active installations” of the ‘Disable Gutenberg’ extension by far reason enough to admit the failure and go back and save what’s still left to save?
This is so sad to watch.
Thanks for replying! I noticed that you were kind enough to include some specific trouble spots, and forgot to address the multiselect of paragraphs, etc. There are also improvements coming for these as well.
