So am I on the wrong system?

I have seen a lot of personal blogs lately as I start looking for inspiration. Thing is, though, it seems that almost everyone I see is on WordPress, rather than MT. Now, I don’t see moving off MT anytime soon, as I don’t want to install anything more complicated than Blosxom, but I am a bit curious how WP wound up being the industry standard – I can’t imagine that the licensing agreement alone is what did it. So if you have your own blog, host it yourself, run it on WP – let me know how and why and etcetera.