Anyway, I'm not writing my own blog generator (at least not for my persona blog). I hope this also means I'm back to blogging more often.

At least with your own code, you can quickly check what's happening and modify it. This is also my opinion in general with 3rd party dependencies. If you're only using 5% of the features, "writing your own" doesn't seem too crazy.

I've been happy using Hugo. I started with some theme template, which I modified with the knowledge I had back then. The fix for the error above took 2 minutes, but my issue is with the "friction" it creates.