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But VVV is aimed at developers; the OP describes a different use case, in which he also eloquently explains my dilemma, and that I'm sure of many others: we want to write for our blog, not develop our blog. I am very interested in his project going forward...

I don’t see that issue, really. If you don’t want to develop WP, then use a hosted platform or static builder. If you factor your time spent on tweaking this “simple” proposed setup, you’ll see that $20/month is actually a great deal.

Even when I was a WP developer, none of my personal websites were in WP, they all lived on static hosts that needed zero maintenance.

Yeah -- though I think VVV has been thoroughly supplanted by Local:

https://localwp.com

Which almost every serious WP designer-turned-theme-developer I know uses.

(I personally use my own simplified Vagrant package management scripts with some ssh_config integration hooks because I work on more than WP and value standardisation across VM environments more than I value the features Local adds)

wp-env is a good option too.

https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guide...