I agree with you that Jekyll is not necessarily easier to set up when compared to WP (even though I didn't say that in my original comment). For non technical folks static site generators, GitHub, DNS, SSL, etc may seem like rocket science, and a hosted WP subscription will be way more user friendly.
Nevertheless I believe that most software developers will find setting up and managing a static site blog pretty easy, just a matter of forking a pre-configured Jekyll / GitHub Pages repository, fiddling with it's theme, and then configuring their our custom domain and hosting options. There are plenty of tutorials on this subject.
If we were to compare self hosted WP and Jekyll then I would even argue that Jekyll is less complex, since it's just a bunch of static files behind a simple web server that doesn't require SSR or a backing MySQL database.
Jekyll writing experience may be considered worse for most, since you are required to write directly in 'md' files using markdown and sometimes even HTML elements. But again, if you're familiar with front-end development this may not be an issue to you, and I actually prefer it this way.
Nevertheless I believe that most software developers will find setting up and managing a static site blog pretty easy, just a matter of forking a pre-configured Jekyll / GitHub Pages repository, fiddling with it's theme, and then configuring their our custom domain and hosting options. There are plenty of tutorials on this subject.
If we were to compare self hosted WP and Jekyll then I would even argue that Jekyll is less complex, since it's just a bunch of static files behind a simple web server that doesn't require SSR or a backing MySQL database.
Jekyll writing experience may be considered worse for most, since you are required to write directly in 'md' files using markdown and sometimes even HTML elements. But again, if you're familiar with front-end development this may not be an issue to you, and I actually prefer it this way.