I initially got very frustrated with Gatsby. Most new web frameworks makes things easier and faster. Gatsby is not about making a website easier to make. Its about making really fast websites easier to make. Its complicated: you need to use GraphQL to load an image, and you need to choose the right query based on what component you're using.

Eventually, I embraced the complexity, and the plugin system really helps.

Oh, but I still hate the 'theme' feature. I prefer the old 'starter' way.