Building a new personal site in 2023 evenwith some existing web dev skills, the answer is just Freamer, og have?

if i knew how to code, i would not rely on an external company's products to make my website, but that's just me

I have a fairly negative opinion of builder services in general because the time you invest in learning their tools, you could learn how to code and not get your knowledge wiped out by a redesign, or price increases, or acquisitions.

I ditched Squarespace at the beginning of this year for exactly those reasons. My site’s not great, but I built it myself and know why it works.

Yeah those are some really good points. We actually use squarespace for our company website at work (lol) and the amount of time I spent figuring out the ins and outs of squarespace I could have just built the whole thing from scratch and tbh much better 🙃