Can Drupal 11/CMS be made to look "pretty"?

I am scoping out a new project for my wife, which she believes will be "big" someday :)

So, doing my due diligence I somehow innately know that if she wants to do something interesting with blogging / AI integration, eCommerce, etc that WordPress will be a pain in the long run. I have some skills at UNIX and am comfortable setting up the backend systems of most anything. I believe that Drupal's way of managing content is inherently "better" at building future unknown functionality than WordPress, so that is why I am here (exactly what, I think, Drupal CMS's goal is to foster).

The problem is that I am having issues finding sites that match the visual flair of WordPress sites. I know Drupal "can" do anything, but it is just a holdover from Drupal's non-CMS past that "visual flair needing companies" have not flocked to this platform, so I can show her sites to convince her?

My wife likes this website (I am not affiliated with them in any way): https://thehappypear.ie/

...but trying to re-create something like that in Drupal seems to be a manual or "hire a themer" sort of thing. Is that right? I know things like experience builder are "coming" but that those are a ways out. Any advice appreciated, thank you!