I strongly agree with the author's experience. I recently totally redid my personal site with Hugo so I could simplify it and learn technology at the same time. It's absolutely great if you want a landing page and blog, really terrible if you're trying to actually do anything custom not related to the layout, however the layout tools are plentiful.
Yes, I have heard of both Pelican and Lektor, I see that they both have plugin systems that allow you to hook in custom Python code via signals / events, should give them a try too (especially Lektor, which is newer, and which I know was written by the author of Flask et al).
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[2] https://www.getlektor.com/