We've been using Gatsby for a blog. Writing the layout in React gives us backend devs experience with it whilst staying relatively simple.
Markdown then gives us a nice way to write content and separates layout and presentation from that content.
Gatsby has loads of plugins and examples so getting started is easy. There's a plugin for an RSS feed.
I'm completely with you that a blog can be HTML and CSS, but I can clone a Gatsby starter blog and add some markdown files within 15 minutes. I see this approach as a low cost alternative to Wordpress.
You don't need Gatsby for any of those things you want to do. You can accomplish the same goal with a much simpler toolkit, like Eleventy. Or my favorite, Bridgetown, for the Rubyists out there.
Markdown then gives us a nice way to write content and separates layout and presentation from that content.
Gatsby has loads of plugins and examples so getting started is easy. There's a plugin for an RSS feed.
I'm completely with you that a blog can be HTML and CSS, but I can clone a Gatsby starter blog and add some markdown files within 15 minutes. I see this approach as a low cost alternative to Wordpress.