So I ended up picking up Eleventy again, after my first (failed) attempt. Admittedly, it worked much easier than expected, and that made me in fact very happy. The only thing that I ended up struggling with, however, was setting up the blog function. Gosh, how many times did I try to reat tutorials and ended up not doing so well, because nothing worked the way I wanted? And it made me quit and put it aside and go "That's something for Future Fey to worry about".
If it weren't for the kind people (especially josh!) from the Nekoweb Discord, I wouldn't have been able to have it figured out. Josh and I were sitting together to fix the many issues,
and I am still so grateful. It was a learning curve for the both of us. (Though will it make me understand Eleventy better after this? Gosh, we will never know).
Alas, it avoided a second attempt on installing Astro and faling at it. Now, that this is done and dusted, I shall try to work more on how to work with 11ty. This is just the beginning after all. More plugins
perhaps? Ah, this is something to worry about once I have the time and motivation.