“requires far too much work for the bloggers”

Thank you for saying that. I recently have begun using WordPress and it can obviously be quite valuable but I was surprised at how difficult it was to use, especially considering how popular it seems to be. The menu layouts are unfathomable, the html rendering software is crude, the functions are less well explained than one might hope. Admittedly, I am using the free wordpress.com and not the self hosted wordpress which appears to have more flexibility. Still, I’m glad to know that it’s not just that I am totally stupid.