Visual website builder for muggles (not Wordpress)

Seen elsewhere, asking for an acquaintance, although I expect the demand for this exists in a wider context:

I'm looking for a visual website builder that either runs on a local machine or is self-hostable, that I can provide to several people who have expressed a desire to have a website, so that I don't just install wordpress for them.

Something that produces plain HTML would be ideal.

I'm looking for, essentially, a static site generator with a UI instead of a markdown and templating based experience.

Added in edit: To clarify ... imagine something like Word, but designed to build a simple, static website instead of a single document. No markdown, just editing via the GUI. Thanks.