I had that exact experience with Next. Ended up hating it for a variety of reasons (routing, file structure, build) and fortunately no longer have to support th

I had that exact experience with Next. Ended up hating it for a variety of reasons (routing, file structure, build) and fortunately no longer have to support that project. Now I roll my own. I pre-render with react-snap, use react-imported-component for code-splitting and hydration. The pre-rendered static HTML pages are everybit as good as SSR. It adds an extra few seconds to the build process, but with Netlify's CI, I push to Github and its live once I'm back from the kitchen.