> Finally, you constantly have to work around the limitations of your static site generator. People have no idea how this simple thing cost so much money in so

> Finally, you constantly have to work around the limitations of your static site generator. People have no idea how this simple thing cost so much money in so many companies. The time we spend shoe-horning stuff into stubborn frameworks someone senior, architect, or powerful in general like without having used it is sometimes more than half the budget clients pay for a solution. And it's not just HTML. It's using Mule for API connection (70% of our time spent fixing Mule, swearing at it or hacking it), using Grails for Java servers (this was horrible and already happened to me twice, I could convince the CEO and bypass the leads to rewrite it in a language we all understood the first time, but the second time the company had to close due to endless productivity sinkholes and 200 employees turn around in 1 year...BECAUSE no one understood what the hell was being done), it's using custom made code generators to consume field lists in very complex models which everyone forgot the workings of 10 years later and new guys spend most of their time for months just hacking the generator to add very low value changes, and the list goes on. Adding level of indirections to solve simple problems in an evolving system is now something I try to avoid. I even have to fight "geniuses" by telling them that we need to do the dumbest possible solution first and see what we need, rather than one more crazy framework solving a problem we may never have. And I don't always win...