I’ve been on WordPress for 18-20 (?) years. Occasionally I look for a better/different/easier platform, but nothing else offers as many design options. However, the constant WP changes, additions (“improvements”) have become increasingly difficult for me to understand/keep up with. I’m now 80 years old. New stuff is getting harder to learn. Lots of my older posts are just flat out broken because of all the changes. The switch to block editing has just about done me in. I love playing with page design and presentation (worked in publishing for 30 years) and like an occasional change just to keep things fresh. But I’m pretty well stuck now. I’ve yet to fully learn/understand my current theme (Saga), although I’ve been using it since March 2022, and I’m afraid that any theme change I attempt now will just break everything.
Please don’t forget us little guys, the bloggers, who use WP.com. So much of what you do now seems geared for businesses and commercial clients. Yes, I have a business plan, but I paid for it only to have the back-up protection and to keep my entire content from appearing on the Reader. There’s no point in working for hours to create a nice presentation when Reader users can read it all on the Reader.
I guess that’s the end of my rant. Just remember we little bloggers were your bread-and-butter once upon a time.