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  • Thread Starter Christian M.

    (@emsisoft)

    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.

    Thread Starter Christian M.

    (@emsisoft)

    @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.

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