So far so good! It matches my desired style and feature set, so I’m probably the ideal candidate ahah.
Left a GitHub issue with the precompiled binary install. But it might be my fault.
The closest thing to this in terms of out of the box simplicity is probably Material theme for MkDocs [1], which has other features, but no official blog support.
I built it for my own needs, but I’d like to know if anyone else finds it useful. Thanks!