When I first experienced Gutenberg when upgrading to WordPress 5 it was a terrible experience. The ‘+’ new block icon didn’t work, and I couldn’t figure out how to add any blocks. It gave me one to jam everything in.

It turns out I had the visual editor disabled in my user profile. I imagine I did that at some point in the past so I didn’t have to fight with TinyMCE but totally forgot about it.

After I enabled it, the blocks started working. Now, let me tell you what, Gutenberg is pretty awesome. I did my first post with multiple blocks and it made life so much easier.

I imagine it will greatly mess with the other page builders that go over the top, but Gutenberg definitely makes it feel more natural when adding long form content.

Advice for WordPress/Automatic/Gutenberg Team

Please, please, please, for the first time a user loads the editor page and has the visual editor disabled, show some sort of warning and just don’t show the ‘+’ new block button. It was extremely confusing and frustrating.