Yeah, you are right. It can be done. But the bulk of the sites I've seen have some cludge that crept in somewhere. Someone installs a broken plugin or writes a

Yeah, you are right. It can be done. But the bulk of the sites I've seen have some cludge that crept in somewhere. Someone installs a broken plugin or writes a custom tweak and things start to fall over. The beauty of static content is this just doesn't happen. You also get some security through simplicity. I suspect you are very good at what you do. A lot of people are not so good at maintaining an operating site. Especially not a top 100 level. That said it's a trade off. For every advantage there is a disadvantage. Having to compile to push changes is not without it's headaches. Using external services for comments and other things can run you into all sorts of cors hell.