Maybe a bit too elaborate for your taste, but I've used https://astro.build/ and loved every bit of it.
I discovered it via one of Kevin Powell's videos: a 20 minutes tutorial to get started using Astro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acgIGT0J99U
I find it very simple to use as a developer, but there are quite a few things happening behind the scenes to make the site itself faster to load for users (e.g. it inlines the CSS so you don't have to load a separate sheet).
The only downside of it is that it depends on a package manager.