I didn't want to 'build community', or buy a lambo off my steem - just wanted to use it as a blog.

It hasn't been a great blogging place perhaps ever. I am hoping that in the mix of dApps, there will be one or two that support a decent blogger.

I'll likely use wordpress over steemit.

Check out @steempress as you will be able to run your wordpress and still post to steem essentially automatically. It might not be attached to an economic incentive but it is activity that could lead somewhere later.