You gotta go with something else if you need support. LC is more for dev-type users who know how to code and don’t need much handholding. Bricks is entirely new kind of workflow and not yet matured. LC is unique and built to fit its owner’s personal workflow so I doubt it’ll be abandoned the same way like a me-too type of product with many competitors. Glad you like the writeup, Michael.

Hehe…feels like a scary venture! Do let us know how it goes for you. For sure LC is better in the long run than Elementor or WP Bakery Builder.

I can’t help but feel you’re out-of-touch with what most A-level developers are doing. Gutenberg isn’t perfect but it’s a massive step more modular, performant, and flexible than existing alternatives. Without Gutenberg blocks, you either have hardcoded templates or pagebuilders (both of which with their own challenges to overcome). Last but not least….I’ve seen plenty of professionally-built websites using Gutenberg and with zero issues. So perhaps it’s the blocks you’re using and the way in you’re using them.

Like you, I’m not here for an argument. People use whatever they want to use. But if you want to know why so many A-grade developers love and use Gutenberg to build incredible solutions…I can help with that. Otherwise, enjoy yourself and have a nice day!

Or, all the websites that lose their styles when (some GB related) plugin updates. To explain this, for example a plugin is offering some Block, and you can (magic!) add some funky shadow (which takes like 30s with custom css, and yes, just 2 seconds with Gutenberg to add) suddenly disappear on update. Why? Oh, we changed a class name, you “just have to resave the setting”. Yeah, but that shouldn’t be, and wouldn’t be needed if using proper approaches, meaning a proper CSS code, right?

Or, all the resources suddenly spiking from a very low usage to high usage, in the backend, meaning, a server with low resources was previously able to run WP just fine, now its not, you get WPODs or half-rendered content, yes, because server resources are low, but maybe we should consider that more than 80% of the world is still using very low-range internet, nt high speed glass cables like the upper classes in first-world.

Or, just lets take the “preview” feature, previous a click and you previewed the post?
No, now it takes up to 10 seconds to “generate” the preview. What a failure.

Not to speak of all the plugins adding “dynamic” inputs, which work just fine if you have 20 posts on a list, but dare you have a site with 15 k posts, Gutenberg simply and plain full crashes.

I administrate major websites, and in none of them Gutenberg has produced reliable results.
Comparing the time needed to craft a proper CSS file with custom css, and teaching the masses CSS and perhaps some PHP to make things look nice and be dynamic, Gutenberg moves towards the “lets hide everything and keep the masses ignorant” approach, where yes you can do amazing things with a point and click, but you will never learn what is happening behind the scenes.

Or the bulk overload in HTML comments since Gutenberg, polluting the source code with html comments for simple paragraphs, which I have seen upsets specially semantic oriented developers and site owners.

Its’ great, but it’s not a solution for proper and specially for professional website development. Interestingly, on your own post there is not a single positive comment on Gutenberg, so I wonder how comes that some peoples still don’t listen the masses opinion, which is “its great, but do not force it on us!”

I don’t want to enter in a fight over it, its at the end everyone own decision what to use, however the statement that “people screw it up” is too simple and wrong.
It’s not the people, it’s the blinded developers who create things without considering the peoples need.

While we can give every man a fish and make him happy, we should give every man the knowledge how to fish! Then we truly diversify and democratise web development, and the knowledge isn’t wasted. I as a developer do not mind teaching my clients how to truly develop things, even if it means that in future they will do it on their own.

Code should be accessible to everyone, and not be hidden behind a smokescreen of nice settings.

I’d love to see the site backend where Gutenberg failed you. I know so many A-level WP developers who love it and using on huge enterprise sites. I’ve custom-built it for many non-techy clients and it works beautifully for them. So I’m definitely baffled how some people screw it up.

It’s a real catastrophe for real website.
Of course, for home kitchen implementations where we post once a week about what burger we eat for lunch, it’s probably enough.
And perhaps we expect too much from the blogging platform WordPress…

I enjoyed the read here and will give this tool a try.

Check out my latest Gutenberg guide… Noob Guide to Gutenberg

Johnny, I have the same nightmare working with Gutenberg blocks. A video like this would be very helpful. I will thank you if you write it down

I’m awfully curious to see how you’re using it. Can you give me a list of all things you’re unable to do? I think I should do a beginner’s video for basic Gutenberg use.