Seems like a lot of work to still have a slow site, wasting tons of CPU to dynamically generate a site when most such sites stay static for days to months. Yes

Seems like a lot of work to still have a slow site, wasting tons of CPU to dynamically generate a site when most such sites stay static for days to months. Yes, you can probably install cache plugins to work around this but everyone is pointing out how you have to be super careful with plugins. If you don’t need a super dynamic site, Wordpress exposed to the Internet is an unnecessary choice. And it does have 0-days sometimes, so just “being perfect about updating, and knowing what plugins are trash and avoiding them” isn’t 100% adequate to keep your WP site secure.