I've been looking closely at WordPress & alternatives for a new biz site, and it's in a weird place at the moment. - Gutenberg and block editing are clearly th

I've been looking closely at WordPress & alternatives for a new biz site, and it's in a weird place at the moment. - Gutenberg and block editing are clearly the future, and ad hoc blocks are a great abstraction. However... - Gutenberg as a place to write is miles behind e.g. Notion in terms of UX. - Gutenberg as a page builder has a long way to go to catch up to the page builders. - Full site editing in Gutenberg is coming, and early demos are out, but who knows how that will shake out. - The WP ecosystem's culture is still race-to-the-bottom dreck. Interesting contrast with Webflow there. - Therefore Gutenberg is in a weird transitional state where right now it's overloaded for writing, underpowered for building, and in transition. I'm keen to see what it's like in 2023, but it's hard to go all in on it now. - The WP as a "forever" project seems to create weird incentives -- the lack of commercial pressure (until site builder SaaSs caught on) seems to have let it drift and drift. It's an interesting case study in open source effectively winning in terms of the network effects of free, and then suffocating and stagnating due to those same network effects. I know they're trying to self-disrupt with Gutenberg [0], but whether they can execute and overcome the UX trap they've identified remains to be seen. Modern SaaS UX (Webflow, Squarespace, Notion et al) just seems beyond their reach. [0] https://markuraine.com/disrupting-wordpress/ https://markuraine.com/disrupting-wordpress/