In reply to Daniel James.

I recognize that many developers are not pleased with Gutenberg, and there's plenty of legitimate (but ever-dwindling) reasons for this. But as a newcomer to WP and fledgling "developer", I am thrilled that WP has a benevolent dictator who chose the many like me over the few, and I cant wait for them to finish the rest of its phases.

Perhaps WP will lose some long-time developers who don't want to align with this direction - and I do I feel some sympathy for those who have staked their lives and livelihoods on a platform that is increasingly disappearing. But, frankly, that's life. Every industry has innovation and people either adapt or die. So, ultimately, I don't think anyone - be it general users or the Core team - really cares about those who will fall by the wayside of innovation that is ultimately in the best interest of the public. There surely won't be any shortage of excellent plugin and theme options provided by those who decide to get with the program.

"We’ll never get to a point where people are generally happy with where WordPress is headed unless the open source WordPress project becomes free from commercial interests."
Its not at all clear to me how Automattic is ruining anything for their financial benefit, but even if this is the case, couldn't you and all the others who hate the current direction just fork WP and make your own? Like, what's the problem?