Tooling consideration for docs site

[thompsonmj]

Building/serving a mkdocs site with Material recently yields message:

 │ ⚠ WARNING – MkDocs 2.0 is incompatible with Material for MkDocs
 │
 │   MkDocs 1.x is unmaintained. We recommend switching to Zensical, our
 │   new static site generator, as soon as possible. We're providing an
 │   analysis of the situation in this article:
 │
 │   https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/blog/2026/02/18/mkdocs-2.0/

The linked summary page in the warning promotes Zensical as their suggested migration/continuity approach.

Presently, it seems like the following options are on the table for consideration among:

1. Pin mkdocs and Material dependencies accordingly.
2. Migrate to Zensical.
3. Adopt mkdocs 2.0 with another theme.

Currently, I believe starting with 1) and phasing to 2) is reasonable for least friction and ideal long-term support. Discussion welcome!