Navigation: Block inserter challenges #46425
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[Block] Navigation
Affects the Navigation Block
Needs Design Feedback
Needs general design feedback.
[Type] Question
Questions about the design or development of the editor.
By default the navigation block uses a Link UI to insert blocks:

This is because in the majority of cases users will want to add links to their navigation, rather than other blocks. We also provide several transforms to popular blocks: "search", "social icons" and "site logo". If a user adds one of these blocks then on subsequent interactions the block inserter changes to look like this:
Now that the Page List block can be configured to display only the child pages of a selected parent, we anticipate that users will also want to add this block to their navigation, which is currently not possible.
In #42257 @SaxonF suggests a new interface for adding blocks to a navigation:

This raises several questions:
1a. If no then should we make it easier to add a Page List block using the initial inserter (the Link UI)?
1b. If yes then does this mean we no longer expect the majority use case to simply be adding custom links?
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