I have the same problems as both OP and the blogger: I want absolutely nothing to do with the hosting of the blog itself. I just want it to be a writing platform, a very very simple one, and nothing more.

I ended up using Hugo hosted on AWS Amplify and CodeCommit: https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-aws-ampl...

This allows me to do plenty of things. There are no servers to manage, and I write my posts with vim and use Markdown. I have a simple theme. Deployment and testing happens automatically through Amplify.

If I really, really, absolutely must, I can dig deeper into Hugo and do whatever I want. But if I just want to stick to the basics, I write files in the content folder and edit the settings file the first time. That's it!

And because it's in AWS, I can use cert manager and Route53, things I already know from work, to put my domain on it.

This was a lot easier for me than anything else. I previously used Ghost hosted on a Digital Ocean instance, but I quickly grew tired of having to update Ghost, dealing with node, etc. Plus having to worry about securing the site and the instance. Patching the instance. Backups.