How are Freelance devs and Agencies developing various types of websites for clients these days?

I'm a software engineer that's been trapped in the corporate world creating and maintaining dry features for B2B Enterprise software. So while I can write you a mean Splunk query and spend a year adding accessibility to a legacy UI, I'm a bit out of the loop on how things are done at agencies and in the freelance world these days.

I've been thinking about going freelance, or maybe join a tiny startup. I miss the creative side of making website UIs, but not sure how things are done anymore. From what I've gathered it seems like this is the toolset used by devs these days, please correct me where I'm wrong:

For Static websites

If someone wants a simple portfolio website, a product landing page, or something static, the go-to solution is to use a static stite generator like Gatsby.js (Jekyll no longer a thing?). Do people ever build static sites from scratch without frameowkrs anymore (I'm sure some people do but are these niche cases?). Back in the day I remember building static sites with template engines, css preprocessors like Sass or Less, and putting together build systems with Grunt or Gulp.

For Blogs
Wordpress used to be king, and Wordpress still seems to be king, but I've noticed lots of content around using something like Gatsby, and coupling that with a headless CMS. What does the modern freelancer reach for in 2023? Do customers prefer the familiarity of Wordpress or are they now accustomed to headless CMS'? Do Agencies still reach for Wordpress? I almost forgot Squarespace. So it seems the options today are to either use Wordpress, Squarespace, or headless cms coupled with a static frontend. Are there other ways that are kind of "mainstream" to build blogs for clients now?

E-commerce
Shopify all the way, everyday? Is WooCommerce still a thing?

Web apps

My mother recently tried to hire someone to build her a social network and that dev used Buddypress to build one out for her. Do devs now reach for ready-made solutions like that or do they build their own from scratch using something like MERN/PERN/MEAN, PHP or Django? Social networks aside, I'm guessing things like booking systems, or any kind of service where users sign up and leverage a platform is built with modern stacks like the aforementioned.

Hosting

Hosting seems to be mostly AWS, Digital Ocean, Netlify and Hostinger?