> Having no SSR but everything be statically exported allows me to get away with cheaper hosting on the backend side
Building a static website is very reasonable. Using the monstrosity that is Next.js to build a static website seems like super overkill, and I am not sure it offers a good developer experience to justify it[1].
[1] My experience with it had a need for dynamically driven pages, so it may just be that it's horrid design is only a problem once you move past static page generation.
You confuse a static website with a statically exported webapp. The site I do and posted a link to has a user/login section with lots of interactivity. Plus, there are features like using the webcam for scan QR codes (using a wasm library to read QRcode in JS from a media stream), receiving push notifications (and be a PWA on iOS), generating customizable print cards, etc.
Building a static website is very reasonable. Using the monstrosity that is Next.js to build a static website seems like super overkill, and I am not sure it offers a good developer experience to justify it[1].
[1] My experience with it had a need for dynamically driven pages, so it may just be that it's horrid design is only a problem once you move past static page generation.