First impressions are important, especially when considering user experience on websites. The page at which a new user arrives the first time they log into a website often sets the tone for their experience using that website.
The page you are taken to when you login to WordPress did not match what I had in mind as an ideal way to set up my website. I could not see any way to start working on my website so I did some searching around on the internet and found that I needed to get to the admin page. I had to type in my URL along with /wp-admin which I never would have done without searching this on Google. In my opinion this is not a very usability focused way to set up a tool intended for creating websites, since it is not intuitive to type this string. The tools you need to edit your website should be available when you login immediately. When comparing to Microsoft Word as a tool for creating pages (not websites but similar in many ways), Microsoft Word does a better job at making their tools visible. There is a bar at the top which has many options (Home, Insert, Draw, etc.) and below those options are specific tools for accomplishing tasks such as inserting a table, or photo for example under the Insert tab.
Some commonly used tools by many writers include reviewing tools such as spellcheck, word count, grammar checking, etc. These are easily available on Microsoft Word, sometimes appearing automatically and sometimes by selecting the text you wish to check. In WordPress, there is a spellcheck that is not as robust as the one in Microsoft Word. However, I could not find any way to check my word count.
Wordpress vs MS Word 