Not every site is static. Sometimes you need forms, processing, or other back-end business logic. Some people advocating using saas widgets for stuff like cc

Not every site is static. Sometimes you need forms, processing, or other back-end business logic. Some people advocating using saas widgets for stuff like cc payments, but you're just farming out the dynamic parts to someone else. That gets hard to maintain with scale and with increased complexity. I see a lot of people on this site debating the pure merits of a technology, but what others know and can work with is just as important as the technology itself. People know wordpress.