For people wanting to try something else, I recommend SolidJS and SolidStart. Personally I never tried Next.js exactly because it feels like too many decisions are being made for me without having any choice. And I don't trust frameworks like that.
Depending on the project, just write an SPA with an API server, or if it is a static website just prerender it and serve on Cloudflare. I don't get the appeal of all the complexity. If you need SSR for SEO, then SolidStart is a nice and simple solution.