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Blogs being slower is a benefit!
The go go go have to meet unrealistic deadlines for the algorithm pressure from large sites is a negative.
My own blog is so not worried with deadline or algorithm (not a single ads, and no desire to make a cent out of it, nor to promote anything) that it has no thematic and zero publishing schedule. I just checked, the last published post is from April 1st (isn't that funny). Some drafts have been waiting to be published... when and if I feel like it which may very well never happen.
I used to publish a lot more many years ago, on other blogs and on social media, for a relatively larger audience, but then one day I realized that was a rat race (one that was driving my nuts) and that was not what I wanted to do with the time I had left to live on this planet. So, I stopped using all my social media accounts and blogs without giving any explanation to anyone. I just left. A few years later, under another name, I opened this tiny blog that I don't really promote, on which I seldom publish and that, rather unsurprisingly, barely gets any reader.
The interesting thing is that I kinda like this blog, and the handful emails (no comment form on that blog) I may get in a year from a rare lost reader, a lot. I enjoy these exchanges.
It reminds me of the good old snail mail, people my age (soon to be 60) and older may remember. How we used to write to people all over the world and waited sometimes for weeks if not months (people were already busy back then), to get a reply. And how a discussion could last for years. Heck, with my best friend we wrote each other for decades. Plural... Even when we happened to live in the same country and city.
A bit like we used to play chess before the Internet, through mail. It was slow and a school of patience.