I also get bored with the same hero layout you see everywhere, and I avoid slideshows whenever possible because they're so hard to make accessible. I did a variation on both with one posterized feature/image, and the smaller features in an overlaid grid - it might be useful if you don't have a ton of content to feature:
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I also get bored with the same hero layout you see everywhere, and I avoid slideshows whenever possible because they're so hard to make accessible. I did a variation on both with one posterized feature/image, and the smaller features in an overlaid grid - it might be useful if you don't have a ton of content to feature: