WordPress 5.0 Upgrade problem

Yesterday, I got a suggestion to update to WP 5.0. Today, I used Duplicator Pro to copy my staging image over my development image to back up to a stable 4.x base.

I found the new ‘editor’ maddening. Blocks. How does one delete an empty block? I could not find any clue. Are we reverting to childhood and are now playing with blocks? I am not impressed.

I use the Envira Gallery plugin to display pages of text and images in a gallery for each topic. This plugin uses the convention of embedding the URL of the page into the gallery page. The URL I need is clearly displayed at the top of the Pages detail page, but in 5.0, you have to publish the page, and then grab the URL off the browser line!

I think WP 5 is not well thought out and should be pulled from distribution until some of these ‘upgrades’ are evaluated for their unpleasant impacts on working servers.