In reply to Justin Tadlock.

Hey! Appreciate the reply :-)

The block editor may very well be a brilliant system of the future. But as it stands, WordPress is already convoluted for a novice and the block editor only makes matters worse.

My issue is not with theme's like Ona but with the Block Editor itself. It seems more like an arcane side project among WP enthusiasts than a system that should be rolled out to all WP users by default.

My company just took on a new customer, a recently retired school system administrator with a Doctorate in Education who decided to get into blogging as a retirement project.

Unfortunately, this person, with a Doctorate in Education, found WordPress too complicated to figure out, so he hired my company to help him get up and running. I appreciate the business, I'm not complaining, but it concerns me that, with the block editor, WordPress seems to be moving in a direction that makes things more complex rather than more simple.

Perhaps the end goal with the block editor is to create a better overall experience, but that goes back to my point of it having been rolled out long before it was ready for the general public.

In terms of user experience, the block editor is a far cry from the editing experience one finds on Medium for blogging, or the page editing experience one finds on Wix.

I understand that WordPress is a vastly more versatile system than Medium or Wix, and versatility inherently results in complexity. WordPress also has more users than Medium and Wix combined, and so trying to please everyone using WordPress is going to be much more difficult.

I don't mean to attack you, or your post, Justin :-) I'm just venting my frustration about the block editor and questioning the general direction WP is going in. Again, it may be a bright and brilliant tool of the future, but as of today, for my customer base, the block editor is an obstacle to avoid, as opposed to a feature that makes WP more pleasant to use.