Maybe this is also the reason for the opposition that Gutenberg faces - as being too WYSIWYG / live, albeit in the admin area.
Yeah exactly, that’s the thing.
The admin area is a punch in the face compared to modern UI and slow like hell, plus there’s a complete lack of live editors or an official builder.
So basically they mixed the whole thing together without a sense instead of:
- adjust the UI of the dashboard and clean it up
- create a standardized builder within the editor
- create a live editor or at least enhance the actual customer, which was close to Shopify
To split it in 3 different concerns is the basic of a project development.
They are creating a monolith with frameworks which work in components.
That’s a whole no sense.
Saying WP has a depth of plugins is true but when so much of it is so poorly coded, it’s hard to use “depth” as a pro, IMO.
Poorly coded plugins for few money is a match.
It’s good to have a wider spectrum of options for people and companies interested in quick and cheap results, beside as developers that’s a torture.
However compared with the real world, you would not always buy the most expensive tool, house and so on. This concept cannot apply in any kind of market and Wordpress is exactly a cheap way to build a website, without know anything of code, design, SEO, etc.