I’m generally a fan in theory of static site generators like Hugo or Jekyll. I like the idea of a blog which is just a set of html pages, especially since I don’t like to enable blog comments. (Mostly for time management reasons.)
However… in my current life situation, I often find myself most able to write or edit blog entries from my phone. Usually on the couch, at the dog park, or otherwise away from a real keyboard. And I just can’t bring myself to manage a static site generator on a mobile device most of the time.
WordPress, for all its faults, has a usable mobile app that can connect to the instance hosted on my provider. So it’s still the choice for the moment.