I've been using Vuepress for this site for a while now. Vuepress has been reliable and reasonably customisable, with little real gripes. As with developers, it's time to look outside and see/ learn how things can be done differently.

Why I dropped Gridsome

When I first discovered Gridsome I loved it. It offered a broader decoupling between content and presentation; going beyond Markdown and into external online sources if one desires. It allowed me to learn Graphql to be selective about data.

Gridsome does not play well with FreeBSD. As a FreeBSD fanboy I tried being patient; if its maturity will improve the installation experience. More than a year in I decided it's time to move on.

Why Nuxtjs

Honestly if I want to stick with Vue-based frameworks there aren't many options better than Vuepress. Nuxtjs is among the most visible, well documented, and most mature. I will do well to at least understand it.

Tldr; what I think of Nuxtjs

This is amazing stuff.

Why Nuxtjs is amazing

Operations to decouple content from rendering makes a lot of sense. Similar to Graphql, the library allows one to apply filters like source (within a file path), and content fields. There's more capabilities and I'm just scratching the surface here.
Super flexible presentation templating for different types of data: it's easy to apply different Vue components for different content types (eg. articles vs tags).
Makes basic features so simple: use surround() to get Next and Previous article links.

Observed friction using Nuxtjs