No usage curve
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[Review updated 1st December 2018]
I’ve been pondering on and dipping and out of Gutenberg development and watching it for some time, even writing code for my own block to see how it all works.
I totally understand the reason why this 2 year long project has been started by WordPress, the desire to daw in more start users by lowering the threshold skills to be able to use WordPress.
I actually think Gutenberg does that job pretty well, but to my mind at the moment it’s like stabilisers on a bicycle when learning to ride. The key difference is that as you get more proficient at stabilisers the stabilisers are taken off. But where dose the skill-development curve go once you’ve dragged and dropped in Gutenberg?
After a while your skills grow and you want something cleaner, faster, simpler – and at the moment that doesn’t exist and you get held back by the editor.
My great fears for Gutenberg are therefore two-fold:
1/ It will draw new users, but they’ll quickly get bored or frustrated and move on again,
2/ Current loyal users for year will feel betrayed and alienated and move on too.I really, honestly hope I’m wrong or that the core leads can redirect Gutenberg or perhaps make the brave decision to sideline it. Only time is going to tell.
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