In reply to basicD.

I suppose I've never really looked at WordPress/Gutenberg as a competitor to one of the platform's third-party plugins. Extensions are always supposed to make WordPress "better" in some way for a certain sub-set of users.

For example, I ran a popular role management plugin for a decade. Many users thought it should have been a part of core. It was certainly more robust than the default offering, but I never thought it needed to be something that WordPress itself bundled. It was there for the folks who needed it.

WordPress's main concern should be building a strong base for end-users and a foundation that themes/plugins can build on top of. Things like the web fonts API are very much a part of that foundation.