yeah, I mean if you’re writing your own plug-ins/ multi level menus / themes from scratch it gets a tad more complicated (but really not much more than variable = data_for_variable and if x then y) but really it’s just a file system with posts instead of files.

i host my site on BlueHost with WordPress because it’s fairly cheap, easy, no set up (WordPress pre installed).

You do have to know how to use WordPress (not any harder than using Excel, really).