Yeah hugo kind of suffers from being one of the first popular tools in the SSG space. It's been around for a while and feature creep has definitely added to th

Yeah hugo kind of suffers from being one of the first popular tools in the SSG space. It's been around for a while and feature creep has definitely added to the complexity. Being written in Go is both a huge advantage, and an unfortunate disadvantage too these days. It's great because the speed and ease of use is unrivaled, but nowadays a jamstack site is much, much more than just a pile of markdown turned into HTML. People are building complex SPA, SSR, hybrid, etc. architectures and using fancy webpack-based workflows with all kind of transpilation, code generation, etc. at every level. You have to jam all of that into hugo's workflow and it just adds to the complexity--now you need a full node/JS frontend setup (with webpack/babel/postcss/etc.) and hugo's setup on top of that. Hugo tries to do some of this itself with esbuild but it still is hard to get away from bolting on webpack with hugo and getting the best... and worst... of both worlds.