I’m still not sure who RM feels their customer is. As a design-dev (in a previous life), if I was open to coding I would use something like Astro or 11ty, both of which provide a ton of flexibility and are also open source. Today however, I’m more interested in a WYSIWYG solution, but every time I see “just use CHAT-GPT and copy/paste this code (that many users don’t often understand) into Elements” I tune out. If I wanted to work with code, I’d just work with code.
I know someone will pipe up that this is a feature for power-users (and that’s true), but if it also becomes a primary means of interacting with Elements to fill-in feature gaps, then not only is the WYSIWYG aspect of Elements lessened, but also is the potential need for 3rd party components, thereby placing the entire burden of development and support of Elements on Realmac.
With limited resources, and increased user demands/expectations I wouldn’t be surprised to see copy/pasted AI generated snippets become the norm for many Elements users within a couple of years. Which unfortunately, isn’t a product I’m terribly interested in using.
I’m hoping we’ll see some clarity on who the audience for Elements is in the not-too-distant future, as well as how RM envisions users primarily interacting with Elements.