Yes it is! Netlify is easier than HTML files on a server. Basically no effort to host a static site, even one that is generated. An SSG such as Jekyll, Hugo,

Yes it is! Netlify is easier than HTML files on a server. Basically no effort to host a static site, even one that is generated. An SSG such as Jekyll, Hugo, Gridsome is potentially easier than HTML files because it uses abstractions to avoid repetitive, error prone HTML such as your lists of posts, previous next, sitemap, etc etc etc. And writing articles in Markdown is so much nicer than HTML. Git is easier than not using Git, whether or not you use an SSG. Shell scripts were offered as a poor mans SSG, so lets ignore them. SSG can be annoying when the templating sucks. I found Hugo annoying in this regard, Jekyll is fine, Gridsome is great, at least on par with PHP when you step outside the box. I think an SSG oriented framework is going to reduce how much templating/scripting you have to write massively. Hosting on your own server, setting up IPs, SSL, Nginx, some kind of deploy script (sftp or whatever) are not particularly hard but with Netlify it's all handled so easily. Theres no contest here