I would argue otherwise. I stopped using Wordpress for my personal blogs because they radically changed the writing tools and unless you self-host you are stuck

I would argue otherwise. I stopped using Wordpress for my personal blogs because they radically changed the writing tools and unless you self-host you are stuck with them. It isn't fun to write on a Wordpress blog any more. They are also 'chasing the money' and adding more tools and features for 'professional bloggers' who want mailing list tools, more SEO tools etc. Fair enough, they will never make money from folks like me but they seem to have gone all in with that market and made it difficult for anyone else to use the tools for a more traditional blog. I moved to Hugo and Markdown and am happy but I know that for a lot of amateur bloggers that isn't going to be a solution.