[andreashaerter]

Can't agree, even though I was also hit by breaking changes from time to time with my own templates. Because this has a BIG upside: I am very happy with Hugo and how they love to solve problems in detail and think through features to the end. Because of these frequent re-factorings and sometimes (!) breaking changes, it gets more elegant every year.

And this is really not a production problem. As stated in the comments before, just don't upgrade if you don't want to / have no time yet. It is a self-contained static site generator without external dependencies. It won't break. And the security of an old Hugo binary is mostly a non-issue if you do not load remote content.

And, if you have some time: Their changes are really well documented. The changelogs are really good.

The main problem is sticking with an unmaintained template of a third party which breaks when you finally want to upgrade and don't want to fork / don't know when a an template update comes along. But that's the reason I write my own. It was worth the effort.