One of Drupal’s best features was the Views module which enabled robust selection criteria for displaying posts, so this starts my quest for similar functionality in WordPress.
A quick google search turned up a number of articles mostly focused on putting a code snippet into my theme’s functions.php file. The function name can then be used as a shortcode to insert into a page to display the results of that function. Sounds pretty easy and it is well-described here: https://wpengine.com/resources/list-posts-by-category/.