Another Bugaboo About WordPress Images

I recently nitpicked the WordPress UX for adding alternative text to images. It’s a little clunky, for sure, but not really a big ol’ deal in the grand scheme of things. That post came a day before I updated to WordPress 7.0. Now I have another nitpick about images because they changed the freaking interface! Many (maybe most?) themes will create multiple versions of an uploaded image — essentially different sizes that can be used in different contexts. For example there is a “large” size that is downscaled from the uploaded “full size” version. I think that’s a WordPress Core default that you can disable with a function. You don’t see those different versions in the Media Library, but you can choose which variation is used in the Image Block settings. At least for me, “Large” is the default selection. (Though weirdly not all the time. WordPress must have a way of deciding that?) That’s fine enough. My beef is that WordPress 7.0 haws moved the setting. Notice how it’s in the second of…