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.
The thing is, the current version of Gutenberg is not a bad editor for writers and editors and absolutely the way WordPress needs to go to stay relevant. If Matt did one thing right in the last couple of years, it was realizing that. The way he went about it, seems to have been not always the greatest, but it's an absolute must.
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.
Gutenberg is atrociously bad for blogging types — and there are a lot of blogs out there. I agree that WP needed an official page builder, but it doesn’t belong in the core; it should be a plugin.
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://www.classicpress.net/