Ugh!! Not an upgrade at all!

I use WordPress on my sites because when I first made that choice, WordPress was quite easy to use by multiple authors, even though it wasn’t quite perfect.

The “innovation” of Gutenberg were better reserved for a plugin. As it now is, it is anything but intuitive and presents a rather large learning curve for features I don’t particularly want.

Many of us who use WordPress are interested in thought content – with visual enhancements. As far as I can tell the Gutenberg editor is 1. misnamed, because Gutenberg is synonymous with movable type, not images 2. focused more on image content than text, thus suitable for a smaller subset of WordPress users.

I’m hoping that WordPress developers will awake from their rosy image-induced trance to the reality of how the vast majority of users currently use WordPress and offer Gutenberg as a plugin for those who love it. For me, at least, this “feature” does not have an intuitive user interface. Quite the contrary.

Please allow the rest of us to use a simple editor, possibly with some enhancements (chosen individually) so don’t have to waste a lot of time on something we neither need nor want.