Personally I use Ghost. It has nice and clear UI and by default it's not overloaded with different options.
Hosted version is pretty expensive at least comparing to other blogging platforms. However as you are a dev you can set up your own instance for free - I have it on my Vultr.com server - I pay 5$/month. Setting up took me few hours because of different workarounds I had to do.
But keep in mind it has some drawbacks:

• lack of comments mechanism - you have to use external tool - all good tools are paid.
• I also miss possiblility to making certain post featured on the list of all posts

I think WordPress is the best cms for blogging because much more people known it blogging cms or software. It's my personal opinion.

Depends strongly on what you need and how tech savvy you are, as well as your personal preferences. There are too many options to choose from.

If you need other people to write content, and they're not tech-savvy, go with what they're most familiar with. Which is probably word press/ghost. I recommend ghost.

If you're writing with a group of developers, and want flexibility and great performance, use a headless cms and a static site generator, and host it on a cdn like Netlify.

Some of them combine the best of both worlds. See Netlify CMS.

Hey 👋

According to me it'sblogger.com! 😋

I created my blog using this CMS. 🙂
Check it out:amanchourasia.in