You know as someone who sucks at frontend I actually had the opposite experience. I went from WordPress to Hugo to nextjs (on mdx) and I couldn't be happier.

You know as someone who sucks at frontend I actually had the opposite experience. I went from WordPress to Hugo to nextjs (on mdx) and I couldn't be happier. My use case was to actually put in custom embeds and of different widgets/interactive tutorials etc and this was the easiest thing for me. Where I did struggle in this migration was I got sucked into contentlayer (the template I got "inspired" by used it) and it was a total time sink. Instead removed contentlayer and just loaded whay I needed and it was a lot smoother. Same with preact. Just keeping up with dependencies got easier by removing preact and contentlayer.