Anyone else notice that Gutenberg basically gives you all the tools necessary to not only use it as a page builder but to build a custom page builder on top of it.
The difference is it is much closer to core, essentially making it more "native" than other page builders.
It also helps that Gutenberg is very light and very fast.
Once you understand how it works you'll see that theres a way to make it work how you prefer.
As a Classic theme purist, it's very clean how blocks separate things and allows you to build better editing experiences with WordPress components and React in the Editor and your choice of dynamic PHP rendering or React on the front end.
It's what WordPress has been missing to connect the back and front and finally provide an official WordPress way of doing what many developers have done 100 different ways.
Idk how you can be a classic theme purist and be here advocating for gutenberg, those two things don’t really go together.
Ps. Gutenberg sucks balls
I feel like I’m in 2016 when I try to build with it