First and foremost GatStats is a Gatsby theme, its underpinned by theme-ui making updating theme styles a breeze.
If you require larger changes GatStats fully supports Gatsby themes Component Shadowing.
If you're looking to spin up a blog GatStats will do that just fine but GatStats also provides and exposes a little more information for your readers.
The "Dashboard" comes with three data visulisations which inspect your file system and frontmatter to determine how often you post, which tags you use the most and which days of the week you generally post on.