No analytics is definitely an option. Especially if you do not plan to use analytics in any way (and I am not sure if analytics has been used in any way up to now).
But if the purpose is to grow an user base, or improve how the site is experienced, having some analytics, might be useful to know what is popular or what channel bring traffic or what pages are rarely reached. Or just to know by some inaccurate proxy if the user base is indeed growing or not. And I honestly do not see much harm in the type of analytics collected by a service like plausible (or the other services mentioned), where they do not collect single user activity (it is also very simple to opt out of analytics). One particular element I like about plausible is that it is very easy to make the analytics publicly visibly for everyone (I have not been able to find if goat counter or the other services provide such an option). I think this is nice in terms of transparency for an open source project and also might increase involvement of people contributing (“hey, I wrote an article read by thousands of people from Japan to Brazil! This feels nice, maybe I will write another blogpost for Nim…”).
