I recently came back to my blog after many years of not posting for various reasons. I've used a combination of Github, Netlify and Eleventy to host my blog for a long time, and it worked really well. However, in September 2023, Netlify announced that they were dropping support for Git LFS because other people did it better.
People appear to be in two different camps on the question of "how hard is coding today?". There's a group who keep on the cutting edge of technology (the GraphQL-using, framework-switching bunch who are currently talking up Astro) and those who don't, or cannot, for many, many different reasons.