Really appreciate your comments, Michael. Everything is making both more and less sense to me at the same time, haha! Just because it is so complex.
I’ve been experimenting with MailerLite and I think it might work for what we need. Now that I’ve found out how to use RSS, I’m a little disappointed with how limited the Webflow feed is (I can’t include custom fields like ‘author’ or ‘category’), but it seems like any workarounds might be quite complicated. That said, this is better than what I had before and I’ll continue experimenting!