"Composer too complicated"
I think this is so important that I will give you a detailed answer.
The "Block"/"Add Block" feature is very cool, but takes time to understand. When authoring a blog post most people are used to - well, this - the editor I am writing in right now. A title field and a textarea field with some buttons in a toolbar on top for making text bold or inserting images and links.
Many people will not notice the "Add block" button on the top left, and even if they do click it they will not understand whats just popped up right in their face.
The Blocks Tab is super cool, when popping in focus when when you click inside a block/the textarea, and adding more sections/options (linking) if you eg. select a text snippet. But the new user would think, where is options for inserting a video or image, and not see the "Add block" button.
There is a "Add cover" button on top right. I mean... What do you think an "Add cover" button do, if you had not seen this button before? "Featured image" would probably be better naming for this button, then you tell new users that this has something to do with images at least.
The Main window has a Category link on top. When you click it basically nothing happens... Why not have a drop down where user could select category right here - or remove it from Main window (its a Category section in Post tab, right)?
The Main window has a "Modify" button under the Title. Why? If you were a new user and saw this "Modify" button, do you think you would know what it did? (I do not want my user to fiddle with the SEO title/url, this should happen auto in back).
The text areas has "Enter your text here..." prefilled. Nice, but when I click inside the textarea I would like the prefilled text to disapear, and just start typing, as it is now I have to delete it first, and then start typing. The font is too small also (Wordpress has understood the importance of big fonts when authoring blog posts!)
The main window has three buttons at bottom, and one of them even has three options. I mean...come one!? All you need is a "Publish" button and autosave in the back.
Post tab.
Theres an "Author" section, but you can not do any changes to this. Not needed - just use of space, but I like it (when author has avatar image, this gives confidence and familarity to the user seeing himself/something he knows and like in this new environment).
Categories section. A category is chosen by default. Users often forget to select categories. My site will be filled with post in the "General" default category, even though most of the post belongs to other categories. This should not be selected by default, and if a user tries to publish an article they should be forced to select missing category. Sorry this is not really addressing "Complicated", but rather UIX.
Theres sections to add Tags, General settings, and even Post properties. When a user writes a blog post, do you think he would be interested in posting it tomorrow instead of now/when he clicks the Publish button? You even have settings for editing Creation date and Publish date... Do you think the regular user even know the difference between Creation date and Publish date? Maybe I am wrong, but I have not found a way to hide/remove these settings in Composer for the regular users (other than coding).
Do not get me wrong, I love the new Block-Composer. Theres is so much potential here (thinking that 3rd party developers could develop new specialised blocks, etc), and there is so many buttons and settings to fiddle with.
But for new users it is - well - complicated to understand and use, and it seems to me that users can change settings that I as an admin would not like them to change (like comments off and publishing date).
My users are used to Word, writing a title, some body text and insering images here and there...
And in comes your Quick Post solution, and I am thinking - What a brilliant idea! It is even integrated in EasySocial status update field!! My users can post a blog post from the EasySocial status field - quick and easy!!!
...But they can not, since there is no way to write a regular blog post with a title and some body text with images with the Quick Post feature. The Quick Post feature is some sort of weird categorised facebook/twitter status update feature, where you can insert title and text without images or formatting, or videos without your own descriptions, and links without anything/title or description, I mean...come one!?
Worst thing is that if you quick post, and then later when you are back from whatever and in front of your desktop and want to edit your quick post (upload images, videos, etc, format, add more text and images), you are stuck in quick post mode - you can only insert unformatted text(!)
So you ended up with a complex composer with too many settings and buttons, and an unfamiliar "block" system of doing things, and a useless Quick Post feature, and forgot the editor with a title field on top, a textarea with toolbar buttons (like this one), a select category dropdown menu, and a Publish button...
So my advice to you is to keep the composer, get rid of the Quick Post and make a regular Quick Post editor instead. And let admins be able to choose when and for which users (ACL) the composer kicks in when the user clicks the "Post new" button. And please, please make users of EasySocial be able to post a blog with title, formatted text with images and youtube links, and category select from the status update field! Thats what 95% of my users need. To be able to write a blog article with title, formatted text and images, or to post a video from youtube/mobile phone with title and description.