In reply to Morten Rand-Hendriksen.

My point is because WordPress is open source, the application evolves along whatever path the community chooses.

That's naive. Gutenberg is being developed because Matt wants it to be. There was no demand from 'the community' for it or for it to be the gang feature in 5.0. That's Matt.

Yes, the community influences things but let's not pretend that Automattic doesn't have a huge influence. I don't MIND that, but this fantasy that some large community decides things really needs to go. Open source projects are always move in directions that the most involved developers are interested in.

That's fine in most cases but WP is, I think, so large that it's inevitable that a tiny percentage of people will be the ones most involved. IF even 10% of the people who actively create themes and plugins actually started being submitting pull requests etc the system would break.