Recently, I’ve come to appreciate Kirby (https://getkirby.com/). It’s commercial but reasonably priced. Clean, powerful and relaxed with updates.
And when I say developers oriented I mean it in a good way.
Documentation for first-time users could be better though. The YAML page structure took some time to wrap my head around. Also, as it’s flat-file, backups are trivial – just copy the folder or commit everything to a VCS.
But yes it would not be a replacement for WordPress if you want to click together a site with themes and plugins