@pimoore Agree on the part of having full control over styling being a plus on traditional blogs if that’s how you like to roll. However, I’m curious about what you mean by the following, could you elaborate?

But given the choice between hosted blog and Substack, I’ll take a blog every time as my primary source of content.

What about Substack makes it not a blog to you? Other than not having full control over its visual design. Or rather, how would you define a blog?