In reply to Paul Lacey.

My assumption is that the target user base for WordPress/Gutenberg is the world's population. Even if you got rid of a few billion who don't have much access to internet, you're still left with an enormous amount of people. Though the more access that everyone gets, the more likely it is that internet and devices will become more accessible to everyone.

Even without any assumptions at all, the number of developers who are displeased with Gutenberg are necessarily much smaller than the total userbase - there would be no clients for developers if everyone was a developer!

Sure, many people might be better suited for WordPress.com, but that itself seems like a baseless and condescending assumption.... If WordPress.org were made very easy to use (the entire point of Gutenberg), why wouldn't people use that? They get access to themes, plugins, etc... Moreover, if there's some hidden financial agenda on the part of Automattic (as some have suggested here), why would they contribute at all to dot org when it cannibalizes their business?

Matt Mullenweg strikes me as a highly decent, honest person who truly cares about WordPress, open source and people in general. As with all plugin/theme developers, there is no reason he can't do something that serves the common good while also earning a living/capitalizing on his ingenuity and investment. Moreover, that profit allows for his company to be the primary contributor to the Core that benefits everyone.

At the end of the day, it is impossible to be all things to all people, so he has chosen the side of the many which will leave some people feeling unserved (maybe even betrayed). But, quite clearly there are plenty of developers who have also gotten aboard the gutenberg train and many of them will thrive into the future. The majority of be grudging holdouts will probably go the way most other dead trades and industries, and I lose no sleep over that. They can either get with the program of trying to best serve the common good while making a living, or take their considerable skills and energy elsewhere.