It’s really not that bad

I can understand that nobody likes change but for heavens sake, some of these review are completely and utterly unfair.

If you really hate it that much, just install the Classic Editor plugin. It takes minutes.

As a piece of software itself, Gutenberg is solid in terms of how it’s been developed, and how extensible it is. I did the Gutenberg modules for a very popular plugin, and it was a pleasure to integrate with.

It degrades peacefully, and for any newcomers, it’s much more intuitive to use than the classic editors non-standard workflows which are muddied even further by various plugins different approaches to doing things.

The sheer number of sites running “page builder” plugins should give you a good indicator that it really was high time WordPress moved on from the classic editor, which is even older than YouTube.

Good on WordPress for making a concrete effort to stay relevant. Some of the reviewers here would be wise to also do that.

EDIT: Just to add to this, Gutenberg is LIGHTNING fast compared to other popular page builders. Because of it’s lightweight approach to front end JavaScript, Gutenberg will absolutely rinse most of the alternatives in terms of performance – and hence, page speed. Some of the more established, all-singing all-dancing editors will wreck performance in terms of painting and reflows. Gutenberg does not suffer from this, at all, because it’s very well designed from an engineering point of view. Fair play to the developers, I hope they can look past the spite in some of the one star reviews that are, amazingly, still being dropped.

• This topic was modified 4 years ago by perryrylance.