I think, a little ironically ofc, opening yourself up like that ends up capping how personal you can (are willing to) get. Not always a bad thing, but I believe the modern internet is missing a lot of soul that comes from being vulnerable. Lord knows social media personalities and corporate brands will never do it.
omg.lol (https://home.omg.lol/) has not been mentioned. You get quite a few nice bonuses from it (like community!) for a very reasonable, imo, $20USD a year. At least give it a look my friend!
They are coming back. No, they will never be as prominent as search engines, despite how crappy they've (Google in particular) has gotten. You wanna find personal websites? It's not hard you just gotta put in a little effort:
https://foreverliketh.is/blog/exploring-the-personal-web/
A lot of those collectives are even curated, like the one made by a Hacker News user recently:
https://dm.hn/
This isn't just to OP, it's to the rest of you as well: The Personal Web has never been more dead. But also perhaps never as alive. If you care at all about it, you'd take part, contribute and connect.
Plenty would argue it's been dead for awhile, since even before AI. [1] I refuse to concede though, it's as dead as you let it be. In both the places you passively consume from, and actively participate in. [2]