In reply to David Artiss.

1) Tavern readers are a very small subset of WordPress users. There was an outcry amoung a very small subset of WordPress users.

2) "WordPress" isn't doing anything about it. You see, Matt announced this project and promptly assigned the dev and design leads. Almost all of these were from Automattic. "WordPress" doesn't have to compete with Wix/Weebly/SquareSpace, bug Automattic does. It's very easy to see the conflicts of interest at play if you haven't taken a swig of the kool-aid. There are a few prominent core devs that have jumped in to contribute to Gutenweg, but this is an Automattic project.

3) Having said that, I do believe Matt wants the best for WordPress, its just really hard to fill so many conflicting roles without being contemptible.