Built a full website on V4, here are my thoughts on what's missing (a lot)

[dzbanke]

Description

Elementor V4 editor on paper looks fantastic, it's how Elementor should work and look like since the beginning. I love the lightweight design and CSS class-first approach. I've recently decided to redesign my own website, and it seemed like a natural step to do it in V4 beta, so I don't have to do it again in the near future. I will be ready for V4 official release. In my honest opinion, it's still a mess not ready for release. Here are some things I noticed:

1. Every div element gets random 10px padding, so there is a need to introduce a global class with 0 padding to combat that. Same issue with min width set on every block div.
2. You can't set a default values for a widget like in V3, it could solve the default 10px padding issue.
3. You can't set a default unit, like VW or REM.
4. The select list when choosing a unit collapses randomly.
5. Removing value from a field resets chosen unit to pixels, that's annoying.
6. Cards in style tab do not collapse when you want to open another one - huge UI mistake if you ask me. You could add a switch in preferences, so a designer could choose if those tabs should collapse or stay open.
7. When adding a Paragraph or Heading, the content tab where you input text should be open by default as well, it is annoying to open it every. single. time.
8. There are issues with mobile version, it broke many times for some reason for me. A huge amount of adjusting code after switching to mobile view is required, which is counterintuitive to how V4 should work.
   Text colors do not work properly when set in local class, it defaults to default text color.
9. There are no grid options at all. In V3 you can choose between Flexbox and Grid in Container widget. Where are the grids, guys? Its such a crucial thing and I'm surprised its still missing in Beta.
10. Atomic elements are scarce, there should be a lot more by now in Beta. If you're planning to launch many more after V4 goes live, it could easily turn into a disaster. Right now, V4 is simply just poor in terms of choice of the atomic widgets.
11. In some places, you can't pick a global color or font, must type it manually. So I guess not everything is unified and works on a global level, huh?
12. Using V4 editor with JetEngine and custom field types is just a massive bummer. It breaks constantly and doesn't work half the time.
13. You get a Paragraph and Header widgets as it is in V3, but for some reason, you can't really edit text in a Paragraph atomic widget. Can't add a list or style text. You should implement new WYSIWIG type of stuff here, I'm surprised its missing.
14. In theory, you should do 98% of stuff in Style tab now, and resort to adding custom CSS only in extreme or unusual situations, but for some reason, adding custom CSS in css-centric V4 is way worse than in V3. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
15. Connecting to Adobe Fonts via Integration settings in Elementor doesn't work, Adobe fonts don't show up in the select list.
16. You should be able to create components with V3 widgets inside.
17. Right now, if you want to make a website using V4, you must make some things twice, like add global fonts and global colors, because they don't sync with V3 at all. And if you want to use some V3 element (right now you must, because there are like 5 atomic widgets) you must set up colors and fonts in site settings in order for V3 to work.
18. You can't import or export classes or global fonts or colors, or sort them in any way. There is just one list of all used classes, and that's all. Can't group them in any way to introduce some organizing.
19. Going back from editing a component is laggy, and the black overlay stays for far too long.

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[krzysioper]

The part that makes me most worried is that, no one from elementor team replied you in 6 days.
Other posts are also left with no answers.

[dzbanke]

They replied to me on Reddit couple days ago that they would reply but right now they are working on the beta release. I saw the new beta is released, still no reply here or on Reddit. Makes you think that their team consists of like 2 or 3 people, that they don't have anyone dedicated to communicating with their user base.