I have played with what feels like every framework rebuilding my personal site (which is still in the works). I looked at Gatsby, Next.js, etc. All of them felt

I have played with what feels like every framework rebuilding my personal site (which is still in the works). I looked at Gatsby, Next.js, etc. All of them felt like overkill for a simple site. In the end I settled on a self created solution that takes markdown files (because I can write a blog post quick with it) that I upload to GitHub and then have netlify runs a build script on. This renders them using handlebar templates which the output is then deployed as pure static HTML. Google, users, etc are none the wiser. At first it was more of a "can I get this work" and in the end I found the time I save writing just markdown worth it. So many frameworks that I hear people using for even a simple personal site are absolute overkill.