People could do that. Or they can click "new doc" in Docs, start typing, then copy the URL and send it to a friend. Look at that, they published a page, no problem solving necessary. Thus people, no matter their ability, will probably default to that approach.

I don't think it's a value judgement to say one thing is easier than another and hence people will. Choose the easier thing.

If we want more folks to use and build websites, it needs to be Google-Docs level easy, otherwise people will use Google Docs.