Thank you for making this. We hand-code some of our advertising banners using widgets along the sidebar as a way of bypassing ad blockers. However, with the new WordPress update (5.8) this plugin caused issues with my RSS feed not sending out via our email provider. It took a bit of time to point the finger to this plugin, but as soon as I disabled it, the RSS feed worked fine again. Hopefully, this will be updated soon so I needn't toggle it on and off as I rearrange ad banners. Thanks for all your work!

Pleased we can restore to the old method. I've come to like Gutenberg for layouts for day to day work, but why use this method for arranging widgets?? Stupid.

Thank You! What a relief to be able to have the Widget area restored to its original excellent design. The Gutenberg Blocks just don't make the grade. It's twice as much work. WordPress core used to make sense, now it doesn't. Why take something that worked so well and mess it up for the people who use WordPress. Not just developers and designers but users of WordPress. I won't be surprised if there are two versions of WordPress. 1)The original WordPress core that went from a blogging platform to becoming the most used software worldwide. 2) The Gutenberg WordPress. A Block System with blank pages and hidden features that only the people who created them know where they are and what they do and how to operate them.

Worked fine for my Newspaper theme

I'm still mad about guttenberg, but out of sight out of mind. We all know widgets needed some updating... but not like this. Stupid single column blocks....scroll ..scroll.., at least before you could see most widgets at a single glance. Honestly all these changes are probably making a lot of us better developers as we realise were on a different path from wordpress and we look for better ways to build sites.

Why was there no notice given of the change to Widget Blocks? Worst change in WordPress EVER.