No just no.

I am in shock with how bad this is. And its supposedly going to be released as the DEFAULT in a couple of updates? This has to be a joke.

All the best things about block-like editors are ignored here, its like they have never used a block editor before. There’s no “drag and drop” at all, really. You should be able to simply drag blocks to the left and right of each other. The way the “columns(beta)” option works is essentially how the whole editor should work by default but doesn’t for some reason. Want a good example? Use MailChip and build a custom template. There is an example of a really dated but nice working “block” editor. Use that as a base to move forward because what has been built here is… horrible.

Random paragraph tags are inserted throughout the content with no rhyme or reason and you constantly have to go to the code area to clean them out and fix invalidly nested tags. The system is unintuitive and cumbersome and worst of all does not feel natively WordPress. WordPress is so clean and intuitive everywhere else, other than the Customizer where it is up to the theme developer, but even that manages to feel more native.

This editor reeks of being unpolished and untested. It’s complicating something that was not complicated at all before. I definitely applaud them wanting to replace the old outdated TinyMCE style editor but this is NOT ready and is NOT even close to an acceptable replacement. DO NOT RELEASE THIS unless you want to KILL WORDPRESS.