To be more accurate, it's between building your own site by hand vs. using a third-party static site generator. I point this out because I built my site using

To be more accurate, it's between building your own site by hand vs. using a third-party static site generator. I point this out because I built my site using my own SSG. In theory that gives both sets of advantages, right? (Well, except for the lack of a build step.) In practice, I've forgotten how the generator works, the system and generated layout is confusing, it's undocumented, and it's all in Python 2. Also, one of big markdowns to doing it yourself is you likely have far less experience or knowledge of how to arrange a site than someone who has developed a widely-used SSG.