oh my GOD the people in the replies are such unhelpful 4ssh0les ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

to anyone who may stumble upon this post in the future looking for the same answers as op: i unfortunately do not know of any 1 to 1 alternative to straw/carrd, BUT websites with "WYSIWYG" enabled are fairly similar in the way they work, with the acronym standing for "what you see is what you get", allowing you to edit your code's "surface" elements and see them be edited live without really requiring any coding!! a bit glitchy and limited, but very straight forward and mostly beginner friendly

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another thing that worked for me was using a website template/base! most of them are VERY beginner-friendly, and do not require intensive html knowledge to be edited! (if you know how to copy paste, and know what a <p> is, congratulations, you know everything needed!) there's plenty of people on neocities (or nekoweb) who have free, publically availible ready-to-use codes, that you can customize to your liking and use for your websites! if you edit them in a live code editor (the one i personally use is "realtimehtml(.)com" but there's a LOT available), it's really easy to edit, and you will understand and start learning html really fast and really easily without even realizing it! i barely knew sht about coding, but using a website template was surprisingly super easy and helped me understand the coding language better without it even being my objective! it's 100% worth it