I stumbled across Steve Builds Websites and found his presentation to be informative. Check out his youtube video concerning website builders at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RYzZ4FCWqI
His top choice was squarespace,

He also took a look at mailing programs that was insightful. He went with mailerlite but Brevo seemed like a reasonable alternative His video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHbFq67qieI
