For the non-dev user, Gutenberg takes longer and is more fiddly to do what the old editor used to do, breaks a lot of old themes/plugins, and makes it harder an

For the non-dev user, Gutenberg takes longer and is more fiddly to do what the old editor used to do, breaks a lot of old themes/plugins, and makes it harder and harder to use the old editor/themes/and similar. For the developer, WordPress used to be really easy to make add-ons for and customize. Now you need to know React to get the most of of WordPress, and if you're going to go through the trouble to get good with React, what are you going to do, use it to maintain WordPress sites or go get paid more to do React development? Gutenberg and the changes associated with it do make a better site — but people didn't want a better site, they wanted a better WordPress.