I have finally updated to WordPress 5. Without doubt, the new editor is the most user unfriendly device imaginable. It is unremittingly awful. As is usual, someone, somewhere, tried to dumb down the writing process and in that process made it more difficult to navigate and to put in the relevant tags. I gave up trying to find the “quote” tags. If it isn’t immediately obvious where things are, then you have failed in your design and this one has failed catastrophically. I don’t want t a fancy “writing experience”. I want simple, clean, efficient tools that do what they say on the tin. I’ve downgraded to the classic editor.
There’s a message here: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! Fucking Hellski!
Yep. I did the same some time back.
‘Blocks’? Thought up by blockheads, perhaps?..
If it gets in the way of the process, it’s a failure.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!”
Sounds good on the surface, but if those whose job it is to fix it when it’s broke, fix it but build in a new, subtle, highly original brokeness, then they have job security.
Indeed, and we have to live with the results. When it comes to writing tools, a simple page with formatting buttons clearly placed at the top of the page is all that is needed.
Gutenberg is an abortion. The dreadful creation of people who haven’t bothered to ask what people actually need and want.
It is the same with every bit of s/w, from Windows, Orifice all the way down to the TV controller.
It gets improved. Then you are stuffed.
At least until your grand child turns up and fixes it/you.