Changing the URL of your feed isn’t the end of the world either…you can just shove in the tag itunes:new-feed-url with the new location, but the old one still has to work too, for a while…
I had .htaccess challenges when we first started using hugo for our show, since we hosted on GH Pages…but when we moved to Netlify, we can do redirects now, so they don’t pain me as much as they used to 
Our show lived on WP for the first year or so, and then we moved to Hugo, because my co-hosts hated having to log into WP to do show notes, etc…it’s so much more rad to be able to do it all via git. We even occasionally have gotten PR’s from listeners with fixes/updates to our show notes