[Fletch137]

IMO, just about any will do, but the simplest thing that'll get the job done is probably the best choice - less inertia.

If all you need is a markdown-powered blog, then choose something that does only that. I use Gatsby because I'm familiar with React and it does what I need it to do.

I provide a few small businesses with simple websites to advertise their services (opening times and the like) where wordpress would have been the "traditional" choice, and the main thing I've learned from this is to stay away from loads of plugins or extra functionality until you absolutely need it - it's just more maintenance overhead and things to mess about with/configure. When I update a client site, I simply edit some text and regenerate the site - no plugins to update or config files to edit.

[Fletch137]

Reply to a deleted comment, mentioning that once the client wants to make edits themselves you end up back at wordpress:

Absolutely correct. Unfortunately, I wouldn't trust most of my clients with a wordpress login so that's never been an option. Coming from wordpress sites that clients have installed all manner of plugins on and I have to fix every two weeks, updating some text files manually is a minor issue. I will never go back to wordpress hell.

I am looking into online editing of the content files to address this issue, but I would rather stick with making the edits myself than see a client site with 5 H1s in a page.

[artemis73]

You're right about the minimalist approach. I just want something quick and easy. I shouldn't dread to use it else I will end up dropping it altogether.

I'll be picking up Go as I'm unfamiliar with React and Go seems to be easy to grasp. Thank you for suggesting Gatsby though, I'll give it a shot once I learn React, which should happen this year.