Honestly if you don’t have a lot of content and your needs and aesthetics don’t precisely shoehorn one of the relatively few functioning themes, your before-min

Honestly if you don’t have a lot of content and your needs and aesthetics don’t precisely shoehorn one of the relatively few functioning themes, your before-minimum-viable experience of an SSG is going to be writing raw HTML + CSS, anyway, multiplied by an esoteric, never portable template language and whatever backwards incompatible changes the SSG makes as it seemingly inevitably tries to grow beyond its britches. In hindsight, I’d have gotten my ideas out there quicker, and - excepting pandemic-derailing - stuck with my goals longer, had I just written raw HTML + CSS.