Thank you @dsankel for the detailed feedback and findings! I have added setup scripts for mac and ubuntu based on your suggestions. And the image caption shown bug in the blog list I fixed it and added style to show on bottom of image with background.
My opinions and experiences to choosing Hugo over others,
- Community-driven and most starred
- Speed of the page creation. Hugo is really fast to create static pages, and it provides seamless live preview side by side while writing a page.
- Customization points are wide and advanced to fit almost all use cases.
- Shortcodes support to extend markdown syntax (embedding some external content like videos gist social-media etc.): Shortcodes | Hugo
- Simple installation without external dependencies (only external dependency is custom theme GitHub - imfing/hextra: 🔯 Modern, batteries-included Hugo theme for creating beautiful doc, blog and static websites)