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> Gutenberg was just too late to the game. Automattic sat too long, let third-parties come in and solve a critical user experience problem

Estoy en desacuerdo.

La experiencia que he tenido con plugins como Elementor, WPBackery, Divi, etc que apuntan a cubrir las mismas necesidades que Gutenberg, la considero muy mala, ya sea por performance, UX, o accesibilidad. Además de que constantemente te insisten con upsells "Go pro". En cambio Gutenberg está en el core de WordPress, no es una dependencia de un tercero que si deja de existir tu sitio probablemente se rompa, y si bien Gutenberg tiene un largo camino a mejorar, hoy en día ya es superior a los plugins existentes.

Sorry my English is not good enough to write quick and clear.

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Sin preocupaciones. You're not wrong! But I was not praising things like Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, WPBakery, etc. I hate them all equally for various reasons. I meant that those third-party plugins filled a market need, and Automattic brought Gutenberg into the market many, many years later after they had established themselves. This caused detriment to users because they weren't able to convert off of third-party editors easily or cheaply.

OK, but is not late better than never? All the new users of WP, now, will have the Gutenberg experience from the start, for free, possible minimizing the need to look for third parties plugins.

Yes, the current users of third party plugin editors are tied to keep using it, or make the huge effort to ditch em (it breaks many things). But this is the risk of using any plugins for content creation is in it? Maybe a good plugin idea for the Gutenberg team is a migration tool from [plugin editor] to Gutenberg.

I think that is not too late, the popularity of third parties builders make the statement that this feature was needed, and now is moving to core, and in my opinion with superior UX/Dev teams of all the freemium third parties plugins.

The future is shining.