I think WordPress is still the best bet for a traditional blog with lots of styles & plugins readily available. I don’t know when you last tried it, but it’s quite different than it was, say, ten years ago.
There are also these days also a number of static blog generators where you essentially compile Markdown (similar to the BBS text format) into HTML files which you can sync on even the dumbest web server with FTP or whatever.
I’m thinking about something similar & will probably end up hand-rolling my own static site generator.
