I did a bit of research while trying to figure out what I was going to move my blog to. I felt I was just too constrained at BlogSpot, and the ability to add tools / widgest / themes or to otherwise customise the blog was just too limiting.
Anyway (#1) I elected to go with WordPress because it seems open enough, powerful enough and simple enough (some oxymoron going on there) for what I wanted.
But the editor!!! Jeez. WordPress ships with a thing called TinyMCE which is actually pretty feature-powerful. But, a couple of postings in and the pain shines through.
Biggest gripes are;
#2 constantly having to switch between View and HTML mode to get the effect you want
#1 then [...]