Problem with images and text besides it. (Enters dissapear)

[NekoJonez]

Description

The enters go missing when you update a post when you use the classic block. Especially, when the text is next to an image.

Step-by-step reproduction instructions

Perfect example: https://arpegi.wordpress.com/2021/02/27/review-pokemon-pinball-gameboy/
When I editted this through the block editor / Gutenberg, all the enters I placed to only have text next to the image in a classic block, the enters went poof as soon as I clicked the publish or update button. When I used the classic editor, this behaviour didn't occur.

The issue occured when using the phone and the desktop version.

Expected behaviour

Just like the classic editor, classic blocks should keep the lay-out and especially the enters.

Actual behaviour

The enters where deleted and the images got next to each other and became a mess. An example (where thankfully it looks nice) can be seen here where the author talks about the different skins of the Pokémon Mini: https://arpegi.wordpress.com/2021/02/27/review-pokemon-pinball-mini-pokemon-mini/

WordPress information

• WordPress version: WordPress.org site, on my hosted WordPress sites, I haven't encoutered a situation to see this bug.
• Gutenberg version: Latest at the time of writing.
• Are all plugins except Gutenberg deactivated? Yes, since I have a free WordPress.com account where I noticed this issue.
• Are you using a default theme (e.g. Twenty Twenty-One)? No, Twenty Sixteen

Device information

• Device: Phone = Asus Zenphone 7 + Desktop is selfbuilt.
• Operating system: Android 11 // Windows 10 20H2
• Browser: Opera 74.0.3911.203 (Also tested it in the latest version of Firefox and Chrome, same result)

[youknowriad]

Thanks for the issue,

You're using empty paragraphs as space. Ideally, you shouldn’t be using empty paragraphs as “space” HTML by default don’t show them even if they are there. The Classic editor has what I call a hack adding content (space) to the paragraphs to show them even if you didn’t enter the space. Gutenberg is closer to the standard in this case. If you really want spacing, you should use the “spacer block” or padding to avoid introducing meaningless paragraphs to your markup.

There's already an issue somewhere about this. Let's try to find it and close as duplicate.

[youknowriad]

@jasmussen youu might know where this was discussed before.

[priethor]

Is #17366 the issue you are referring to, @youknowriad ?

[youknowriad]

That is definitely one related issue. Let's consolidate there for now. Thanks @priethor

[NekoJonez]

That is definitely one related issue. Let's consolidate there for now. Thanks @priethor

I agree. While it's not 100% the same issue but it's highly related and I think the solutions provided in that ticket might avoid issues like I mentioned in this ticket.
Thanks for the help @priethor and @youknowriad ... Crossing my fingers a nice fix/update can come from the other ticket. :)