> And it's important to note that WP now sees its main competition as platforms that do offer that. I don't know about every other platform, but Squarespace fo

> And it's important to note that WP now sees its main competition as platforms that do offer that. I don't know about every other platform, but Squarespace for example is doing really well in bringing design consistency. > But one assumes those features can be switched off by theme editors; Maybe you can shut the light off but at the moment it is really hard or even impossible to tune them. > Putting aside the fact that you're basically sneering at users for wanting to make their own creative choices, that is only your call to make when you're managing the system, right? No, it's not about control. It's neither about taste. Individual users can do whatever they want. There are more complex situations where some random guy will use the largest font size in bold red for things he think are important and you still have responsibility for that output. In general, Gutenberg also broke the WP user capability system, so there is still work to do to fix it. > If you really think all these things need to be able to be locked down tight: make the case, submit the patches? Yes and I assure you I'm not the only one, but it's not something you can fix with a patch. There were really constructive discussions that led to the Global Styles concept for example. But oh boy it takes time. There is work on a theme.json standard that is still an undocumented, change-breaking mess. And then, on the next update they put some 50kb of useless svgs in your html...