They exist.

Check out these HN threads -

Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466488

Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14842276

Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625952

Hacker News but for independent blogs

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567155

Show HN: Blogs.hn – tiny blog directory

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36613727

And then, here's mine. Haha -

https://www.rxjourney.net/

I don't use AI to post to my blog nor am I selling things, they exist...I think, dunno, as I find interesting blogs that seem readable I just add them to a list of sites I occasionally hit if I get bored of hacker news front page (and didn't feel like checking new posts like this)

Fewer readers, fewer writers, it’s a constructively deprecated medium.

A lot of the people who would’ve blogged fifteen years ago only make patreon/yootoob/ig videos now.

Yet I agree with you, the slow death of good prose is a sad thing to see.

Try the smolnet, which would be the web before it went all "the 'Akira' stadium scene", or gopher, or gemini (no, not the google twaddle).

Plenty of blogs still out there doing that. What's worked for me, ironically, is asking an LLM to find blog posts on the topics I'm interested in.