I used Jekyll until the combination of various Ruby versions, FreeBSD pkg, gems, and unaccountable bloat drove me mad with rage.

Have you ever looked at the dependencies for Jekyll? Why does it need a JS compiler? I mean, how many lines of code and how many Ruby packages with very specific version numbers does it take to convert markdown to html?

I'm now using Pelican and it hasn't driven me into a rage yet. Happy that development on it is slower and seemingly more deliberate. Then again I haven't had to upgrade it yet.

Checkout netlify. They support forms without you having to run a backend.

I can host my own website on my own server.

Why would I want to restrict myself to a third party's servers?