Quick poll: the meta I keep coming back to [v3]

I want to write something more comprehensive about this later but starting with a quick post to gather thoughts. For context, I am working with a pretty modest budget so high-end suggestions probably will not land. There is a lot of conflicting advice online and most of it is from 2019.

I tried three different approaches and none of them felt quite right. The trade-offs here are not obvious to me and I keep flip-flopping.

For context, I am working with a pretty modest budget so high-end suggestions probably will not land. For context, I am working with a pretty modest budget so high-end suggestions probably will not land.