Hi guys, I think the ultimate goal should be having a full drag and drop editor and not a 3-4-multi-click tiny-sidebar-subsubsubsub-menu click fest. I would really love to see one day everything to be one thing and not a combo of front and backend. It was always a dream of me to have everything editable and drag/drop-able from the frontend so the WYSIWYG experience never breaks down.

The whole problem is, how many years it would take for that to materialise? From what I see some other competitors are already stepping ahead with much better solution and the recent Cloudflare announcement about Pages built from JAMStack would be a huge thing.

Making JAMStack simple with crazy performance on a headless/serverless solutoins would completely revolutionize the performance part and later if all that delivers a simple drag'n'drop experience on top, it would ultimately kill WordPress.

From what I see right now Gutenberg is pointing at the right direction, but the speed of the implementation is too slow. Yes, 39% market share is huge, no doubt about it. But just like the Windows market share is huge, soon Apple would take over just because their M CPU solutions are revolutionary. Mark my word.

Same with WordPress, 39% market share is not showing a long term projections, since JAMStack would solve something 90% of the clients experience - problems with speed. Throw 3-4 plugins and clutter the database with "stuff" and you have a slow loading page. I have clients that ultimately refuse to install even one more plugin.

In 2021 Core Web Vitals are becoming a ranking factor for Google. That means the performance part would be a key. Where is Gutenberg in all this? JAM Stack would be a great solution for that problem.

Sorry guys but it's really Gutenberg that is lagging now in terms of WordPress domination, it should pick a winning strategy, so far what it accomplishes is devs seizing their plugins or stopped updating them, few started their block systems and others continue to live under the rock.

The Gutenberg experience is sub-par so far despite the great idea and this results in a lat of negative reviews everywhere.

For me, for Gutenberg to really hold WP as the dominant CMS, it should aim at one of these in the short term:

1) Performance;
2) Drag and drop instead of multi-click approach.

I use WP from 2008. I've build probably hundreds of sites using it for clients, friends and myself. Some of them were 6 figure earners.

I know what I am talking!