The direction of V4 is the right one, but I believe the rollout has been too early.

[alessandro-verri]

Description

I've been building Elementor websites for years, and I really like the architectural ideas behind V4. The separation between structure, styling and interactions is much cleaner and closer to modern CSS.

However, V4 is currently enabled by default on new installations while it still lacks feature parity with V3.

During my first real project I immediately ran into several issues:

• Missing features compared to V3 (for example, background video support).
• Atomic elements don't seem to integrate seamlessly with existing V3 containers, making mixed projects confusing.
• Global colors and typography are not handled as consistently as expected.
• Existing design systems and workflows cannot be migrated smoothly.

As a professional, I don't mind learning a new workflow. What I do mind is having to build client projects on top of a system that still feels incomplete.

In my opinion, V4 should have reached feature parity with V3 before becoming the default experience for new websites. A reliable migration/conversion tool, similar to the one introduced for the Flexbox Containers transition, would have made adoption much easier.

The concept is excellent, but the release feels premature. At the moment it feels like we're being asked to beta test it on production websites.

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