I tried Lovable and it made a really lovely looking landing page, but it uses god-alone-knows how many frameworks and dependencies, so now I have to throw it into something else to make it vanilla.
That's a good catch - sorry we missed including the links initially and thanks for including them here. The blog post has been updated to include links in a dedicated section.
So while I'm here, here are links to the tools they mentioned:
https://www.cursor.com/
https://v0.dev/
https://lovable.dev/
https://bolt.new/