The form factor for a casual user is no longer a nice desktop app that works offline - it would now take the form of an online website with a good mobile interface. This is filled by wix, and other sitepage generators like it.
That, and for better or worse, Wordpress. A lot of things that used to have been frontpage sites became Wordpress sites of varying quality and maintenance.
I would say for the better - it's the only thing keeping RSS alive. Although I will also say that having to administer a database is overkill for most use cases.
