There are some hurdles yet to be had for the non-tech person. But I would claim that when he/she gets the split panel up and running with the markdown editor on the left and the live-reloading browser on the right, it is no way going back to whatever Wordpress feeds you.

There are initiatives writing some nice clients on top of static site generators such as Hugo and Jekyll, but in my head you then lose out some of the most valuable features of Hugo, speed and simplicity.