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> Because it's a case of a for-profit company competing for paying customers of other hosted platforms. Most WordPress sites don't have that competition

So free users don't want the features that paying users want? Whyever not? Surely the fact that some people are willing to pay for a particular feature indicates just how important that feature is to a lot of users.

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If that were true, why are so many existing users apprehensive about Gutenberg? Self-hosted users of WordPress have different priorities even if most would like a nicer editor, it matters how it comes about and it matters what other sacrifices are made in pursuit of the project.

Many users have legitimate concerns about Gutenberg (compatibility with existing plugins, suitability for ongoing plugin development, migration of existing instances). That's a very different statement from saying that it doesn't solve a real problem that many users have.

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