the freedom of writing in raw HTML is great. If you're willing to handle the learning curve a static site generator (there are several, I use 11ty) allow the freedom of HTML but remove the overhead of managing it all manually
Totally agree with both of you! It takes a little more work, but is very much worth it!
Thank you so much! It's a lot of pieced together code from over the years, so I'm glad you like it!