I recently looked at Hugo[1] as a WP alternative and have been very impressed. It's a static website generator written in Go and features its own server with live-reload so you can see changes to your content instantly in the browser. I was looking for something that a non-techie might be able to maintain and since Hugo offers prebuilt binaries the only requirements for the maintainer is to drop hugo.exe into the working directory and type a few commands. In the end though, it's still a bit more complicated for non-techies than maintaining a website created via WordPress.