Here’s one GH issue about the ability to rename the group block which is most often used as the outer visible block for patterns. Renaming would make the block/html structure visible at a glance instead of seing stacks of groups in the list:
Lots of great work and solutions being presented there, but then a core accessibility guys step in and basically derail the work making it impossible to reach a consensus.
If something like renaming group blocks doesn’t work for everybody would still be very useful for designers or power users to have.
Accessibility is important, but not if it’s to the detriment of most actual users (power users) which sounds more like accessibility extremism.
There is a [great talk on YT between Jamie Marsland and Kevin Geary]) about Gutenberg vs. page builders and the target audience for these tools, and this issue here basically shows the problem.
I was looking forward to the group renaming feature which is standard in other design tools. Not getting it reduces my faith in the block editor / Gutenberg to zero because it will never become a good enough design tool.
It means that over the top accessibility politics and the lack of empathy for designers and power users will creep into other issues and potential improvments too.
The only reason I was using the block editor until now is the faith of it getting better over time which it did in many ways, but seing issues like this one about group renaming getting closed like this well..
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