You mention that bloggers won't care about platform choice, feature bloat or trying something new. Fair enough. Something bloggers would care about is blogging.
Ghost is a simple, focused, blogging platform which is entirely focused on this purpose. As a victim of it's own success, this is not something Wordpress can reasonably claim to be any longer.
Wordpress is a full blown CMS, a title which comes with it's own set of advantages and disadvantages.
I would argue that there is room in the market for both the "Jack-of-all-trades" approach, and the focused, "bare-bones", approach.
Furthermore - my comment was initially in response to an assertion that there were no reasons to be excited about Ghost. I would suggest that, even if they are not reasons you care about, this is untrue.
At the end of the day it comes down to a personal choice of tools. I need a screwdriver; sure, I could use my pen-knife (which also has a torch, bread knife & tweezers), but it might be slower / more fiddly; or I could use a screwdriver.
The OP did not say there were no reasons. The OP merely asked why should he/she use it.
You claimed "SO many reasons", which implies lots and lots of reasons, especially with "SO" in capitals, but you you only listed 4, most of which IMHO were weak, and really only there to puff up the main reason which is that you don't like WP. In fact, in this new tact of yours, you just go on to criticism WP.
But, all you can say to sell this product is that is has less features than WP, and, well, its not WP. But WP works, and works well. So, unless one has a huge problem with WP, which millions of users seem not to have, I'm still don't see much of an answer to the OP's original question, "why should I use this and not WP?"
And of course its personal choice. There are already many alternatives already out there to WP. Most of them as light as this product is, there for already filling the gap for something bare bones. Yet, people make that personal choice to use WP, in their millions.
One big reason people would go for feature rich WP is future proofing. Would be a bit of a mare to use this, then discover you needed more features in the future and have to ditch it for WP, or similar. On top of that the massive user base gives rise to a massive amount of support knowledge. Always a comfort.
Finally, I have to say, if a hacker type in the web business wants something bare bones, what one earth is one doing with blogging software at all? Surely bare bones would be straight HTML with a sniff of CSS? Don't even need a database, and let evil google do the searching. In is most basic form, blogs are just blocks of text linked up. Im pretty sure most people here could rattle up a serviceable blog site in less than a day. I know I could, and I'm crap.
You know, well done to the people who did the work and what not, but Im not seeing any massive positive reason to use it over WP. In fact, in some ways I see it as a risk. What if I want to expand in the future, and this simply cant have the same level of support information. Which is a shame.
You mention that bloggers won't care about platform choice, feature bloat or trying something new. Fair enough. Something bloggers would care about is blogging.
Ghost is a simple, focused, blogging platform which is entirely focused on this purpose. As a victim of it's own success, this is not something Wordpress can reasonably claim to be any longer.
Wordpress is a full blown CMS, a title which comes with it's own set of advantages and disadvantages.
I would argue that there is room in the market for both the "Jack-of-all-trades" approach, and the focused, "bare-bones", approach.
Furthermore - my comment was initially in response to an assertion that there were no reasons to be excited about Ghost. I would suggest that, even if they are not reasons you care about, this is untrue.
At the end of the day it comes down to a personal choice of tools. I need a screwdriver; sure, I could use my pen-knife (which also has a torch, bread knife & tweezers), but it might be slower / more fiddly; or I could use a screwdriver.
Wordpress isn't the right tool for me anymore.