Why Hugo over Astro for something lightweight? Or why not even bashblog? Seems like a strange choice to go with Hugo if he's aiming for lightweight and speed.
(I see what you're getting at but Astro has to be _the worst_ example. I have migrated off hugo to my own SSG but I don't hate it)
At that time it was "make my hugo setup run, and remove 90% of the features I don't need" - but I couldn't tell you how much I have diverged, it's really not a lot of code (or dependencies, but I did not reimplement the hard parts, e.g. markdown and templating)