Back in the day I'd ftp up new html pages I hand cranked in notepad onto my webserver, that feels far more difficult that having a free account on wordpress.com

Back in the day I'd ftp up new html pages I hand cranked in notepad onto my webserver, that feels far more difficult that having a free account on wordpress.com, or following one of a billion tutorials of how to install wordpress on a linode/lightsail/digitalocean server. The complaint about wordpress seems to be "I don't like the default themes'.