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Oh look they wrote a little algorithm to do just that.

Don’t worry. It won’t be long before a member of the WordPress thought police comes along and deletes it.

I think a year or two from now people will really start to appreciate this move and see the power in where WordPress is going with this.

By which time hundreds of thousands of frustrated users will have departed.

When I read responses like that I am forced to wonder whether the WordPress evangelists actually have any ears, whether they deliberately block them up or whether there is simply nothing between them.

There are two mindsets:

Developers – Change is exciting; it’s in their DNA. Improvement for them is new, revolutionary and innovative.
Users – Change is hard work and interruption. They are focused on outcomes, benefits and profit.

Gutenberg has developer’s fingerprints all over it and they are in control. Users are dinosaurs, obstacles to be cast aside, ignorant and obstructive.

It’s not really an answer though is it? As soon as TinyMCE loses focus, any chance of future development/improvement of it will be lost. WordPress then becomes a poor relation of WIX at al and its uniqueness and intuitiveness lost forever.

The community’s verdict on Gutenberg became clear on day one when it was barely scraping 2 out of 5. That view was arrogantly ignored. Now they will delude themselves that the community’s positivity is increasing when, in reality, detractors will see they have been ignored and stop bothering to respond. Those that are left to judge it are the tiny minority who thought it was a good idea in the first place.

So I agree with KingDingbat and I’m already starting the transition away from WordPress.

One day Gutenberg (even the name is pretentious and annoying) might be a good tool, but not for designing WordPress posts. I guess it might have some use as a sort of virtual sledgehammer.