I feel like ClassicPress[^1] is a bit of a better approach to the whole "I just want basic Wordpress that works" - It seems like it's pretty stable and already has a community behind it.
And ClassicPress is the fork of Gutenberg deniers who think a, now, below-average WYSIWYG editor is the way... or...
all the alternative "Page Builders", which are in itself a multi million dollar business, and are horrible usability & code-wise. The two newer big ones, Brick and Breakdance seem fine, but are much more complete website builders than editors. And also something that you don't want end-users to touch.
Don't see that fork being the future.
Btw, Gutenberg is a plugin and its rating in directory (2/5) is telling[1]. Meanwhile, Classic Editor[2], a plugin that disables most of Gutenberg, is used in +10 million websites and a 5/5 plugin.
[1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/ [2] https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/