Perhaps "polish" or "a sleek, modern UI" would have been slightly better wording on my part in regards to the look, but otherwise I'm quite happy that I settled on Grav and also the idea of versioning everything in Git, alongside a CI/CD pipeline, instead of one long lived instance on the server. Being able to mess around with a 1:1 instance locally to what will be on the server also really helps with being able to write more easily and mess around with images etc.

Grav is pretty cool: https://getgrav.org/