Not really no. I mean you can but Wordpress's admin page feels like you are fighting just to post something. Wordpress is no longer really targeted at people that want to get a blog up and running and just that.

That's what ghost is. It's a blogging system without all the added bloat and horrible API's to go with it.

Wordpress's admin page feels like you are fighting just to post something.

???

  1) Log into admin area (usually /wp-admin)
  2) Click "Posts" on left sidebar (first icon on the top)
  3) Write
  4) Submit

Is the current iteration of wordpress different from this workflow? Is Ghost different?

Hell, if you're logged in, you'll see a bar at the top of the screen with "+ New" on every single page of your site.