Full Stack Nextjs/Node dev. Want to start a side free lance project using wordpress for band websites. I need help with a stack. It would have optional ecommerce integration. I worked at an agency that used wordpress with Avada and Oxygen and I disliked it. Can anyone help me with a stack?

I have wordpress experience with avada and oxygen and I hated them. However Bricks (I've also heard about Cwicly but idk much about it) with windpress (I'm a tailwind css guy) looks promising. I feel like a builder with a predefined template might be easiest even though I'm not super fond of builders I want to make money. I wasn't able to really dive into wordpress the way I wanted to at my agency job and would like to make a stack or use a stack that can pump out pretty quick quality band websites to make some money on the side.

Would a multisite be best for hosting. What hosting providers do you suggest? Or should I just use a VPS
multisite and serve it that way? Maybe Lightsail if it's not too expensive?

Also I'm open and capable to developing custom plugins if cheaper for mail automation somehow. I'm also very comfy with REST apis and api building. Custom WP development is something I'm interested as well just on't know if this the use case.

Any suggestions for stack, I'm open to any technologies (including headless, headless is really appealing to me because of my Next and React experience as well as my experience with Supabase and Sanity). I need help getting this off the ground. Can you guys suggest anything?

Thanks a lot.