People worry about tooling because they don't want to create a future mess they have to unpick: or the process might be hard enough they just won't do it.

For my private blog for example, how to easily - as in drag and drop - insert images was a big thing that needed to work. So was reasonable code rendering.

I settled on the requirement "must be able to publish a Jupyter notebook" since that format roughly handles all those requirements while still being markdown mostly.

Then you have hosting: I want low touch so how whatever I pick interacts with that matters a lot too suddenly.

It still took some tweaking of Nikola[1] to get the process right for me, though not much.

Keep it simple doesn't help much if simple is actually just missing features that enable you to write efficiently and often (if that's what you want to do, I think I mostly just keep technical notes for myself).

[1] https://getnikola.com/