If you want to use a real display and have a slightly easier development environment I’ll point out ESPHome has support for displays: ESPHome — ESPHome
Under the covers it translates a YAML config file you create into code using the same facilities as Adafruit, but doesn’t require you to get into coding quite as much. Also if you happen to use Home Assistant for automation you could do all kinds of crazy stuff like having all the lights come on at sunset and coordinate their signs.