Earning my daily bread with writing React with TypeScript and using next.js, this is exactly what I would use for my personal blog.

Sorry for the many negative comments. I'm not sure if many people here do websites for a living, but I can't imagine doing stuff any other way anymore. It's just so convinient from a developer standpoint. Is it overkill for some websites? Maybe, but in the end you are dead on with your sentiment that it needs to be fun for YOU to use. So I hope you are not disencouraged by the many negative comments.