I'm brand new to building a website. I need one for my business. I was under the impression I could learn Wordpress and use that. I was under the impression it was somehow user friendly.

I'm accustomed to learning curves when using new software. But Wordpress is so convoluted. I can't figure out where anything is. I start typing some text into the page and then preview it and it's not there on my site. But there's a ton of other stuff I didn't add which is there. All from the theme I guess. I can't figure out how to edit the theme or the text or get anything to work the way I want it to.

I've spent days and I just can't figure out this block editor thing. It's driving me insane.

Any thoughts or advice?
How to make this work?
More training needed?
Or is it just really bad for beginners?

Why can't Wordpress just be a WYSIWYG editor that lets us drag and drop items onto the page and then edit them however we want? That's what I thought it was 🙁