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In my view, Astro is the most reasonable choice for a blog-like website these days. All the simplicity and all the capabilities that you need. Excited to check this out and see what they have added on top of it.

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Why not a templating language, like Nunjucks EJS or JSX, with vanilla JS for interactivity?

You can use JSX in Astro if you prefer, but a CMS is more than just templates (not a LOT more I'd agree considering it's still static).

I know you can, but do blog-like sites really Island architecture?

IMO most sites like that would be better to pick no-framework, vanilla or jQuery for interactivity.

I can't image average WP users would be happy to move to EmDash, only to have a constant stream of dependabot updates for Astro.

It has 55 direct (non-dev) dependencies https://www.npmjs.com/package/astro?activeTab=dependencies - while ejs has 0 and nunjucks has 3.

I'm weary of updates, maybe it's just me, but I doubt it.

After all these cases like axios it's definitely reasonable. But many people already use Astro. And with static website there are far fewer attack surfaces compared to a full-on PHP running WordPress on a VPS.

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