And they've answered their own question by listing several valid candidates.

You can tell OP is a younger Gen Z by this post lol.

It sounds like a stupid question but if OP isn’t 30+ it’s perfectly understandable to not be aware of the former ubiquity of self hosted blogs.

Yes, like that except not with a terrible interface that looks like the unholy union of vscode and vim.

SSG are really a pain in the ass to work with, especially if you want something other than the standard theme.

I want something that is more akin to using microsoft word except it's in the browser and not made by satan Something I can recomment to people and know they're not going to come back to me and ask "what is a markdown code block"

Ok, well I see it's not what I'm hoping for And by not this, I mean this

It's hard to tell if any of these are the thing I'm looking for or not.

I'm reading the grav page and I have no idea how this is.

Is this like this

Press a button
rich text editor appears
write stuff
press save
send link

That's what I'm aiming for. I had a look, and the blog platform are so much clunkier and frustrating to use. And each of these seems to want to eat several of my weekends to install so I don't have the luxury of reviewing all of them.

Grav is nice, as it creates flat files for the front end, instead of server side/database driven pages. That makes it super fast to load.