It’s a mess – horrible to do even the simplest job

The site editor is a real mess: it’s unclear what you have to edit and where to make the simplest change stick. When using the classic editor for even the simplest job, white spaces appear where you don’t want them. Font sizes disappear on the front end, and it’s a battle to discover where the setting is. Additional CSS only works occasionally to tweak the design – presumably overriden by the over-controlling CSS of the theme. To achieve both a desktop menu and a responsive menu, I have to edit both the “navigation” function in the site editor and the “menus” function under appearance (the latter to edit the menu created by the responsive menues plugin). And the patterns are also a mess- by default my images inserted using the block editor werere made a horrible orange monocolour – you have to fiddle with the settings to change that – why?

The end result looks OK but what a muddle it is to use it.

For heavens sake, Keep It Simple!