> if you want to make people to see your blog at all you have to think at least a bit like a content marketer to get seen at all.

Tell me about it. The most outrageous the titles on my blog (https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/), the more views articles get.

Before I toned it down, my blog post about SSR rendering was called "SSR sucks and you (probably) shouldn't use it", tons of views.

Boring "History of " posts, meh.

But it also depends who I am writing for. Ideally if I am writing for myself, I shouldn't care about the views, right?

Counter argument to that is I am writing for people who may want to read it, and with all the noise out there, if I don't try and elevate my posts to some extent, the people who want to read them may not be able to find them.