Due to recent changes to octoberCMS, They are now a paid platform, I would go with WinterCMS which is an active fork from OctoberCMS. Statamic is not a bad option, but they also are freemium.
It's so sad to see pagekit gone 😭
I have just been building my own CMS using Laravel 8 and their Breeze Starter Kit. Also, for some sites I don't need login, I have been building pages using Publii, which is a static site generator.
