It feels a bit overkill to pay $29 per month just for a hosted blog UI. And if you're running Ghost yourself on a server or on your computer, it's not really a static site anymore.
> Of course I'd like a static website for deploying, but I'd love a web gui which acts as a frontend for such generators.
If you want such a gui on your local machine you're not much more than a few commands away
npm i -g ghost-cli
ghost install local