Lots of those solutions already exist, and I looked into them.
Getting a full WordPress site up and running meant signing up for hosting, clicking a "enable WordPress button", agreeing to the (selected by default) auto-update WordPress check-box, and then going into the WYSIWYG editor.
A few hours later I had a site up and running that looks equally good on Desktop and Mobile.
The # of tools I had to learn was approx 0. The number of hosting options I had to choose from was enormous, pretty much everyone offers WordPress hosting, or one click WordPress installs. WordPress has the advantage of having an incredibly low barrier to entry.
Of course, once it gets complex, it can get really complex.
however, that's exactly my point. a publishing tool that allows you to publish, without learning any tools, like wordpress except faster, since google is going to start penalizing slow sites July 2018.
I saw a few of those around, the price varies a lot. The ones targeted at making a landing pages with a signup form wanted a good deal of money per month (I don't recall exact numbers, well over $30 a month, I think one of them wanted $200 up front to get started). They typically include hosting as well, which sorta makes sense as soon as you add the least bit of interactive elements (e.g. form submissions), they want to make it super simple to get up and running.
Getting a full WordPress site up and running meant signing up for hosting, clicking a "enable WordPress button", agreeing to the (selected by default) auto-update WordPress check-box, and then going into the WYSIWYG editor.
A few hours later I had a site up and running that looks equally good on Desktop and Mobile.
The # of tools I had to learn was approx 0. The number of hosting options I had to choose from was enormous, pretty much everyone offers WordPress hosting, or one click WordPress installs. WordPress has the advantage of having an incredibly low barrier to entry.
Of course, once it gets complex, it can get really complex.