Agreed, but I think most people spend most of their time working on things more complicated than a blog. It seems there's a lot of excitement for purely static

Agreed, but I think most people spend most of their time working on things more complicated than a blog. It seems there's a lot of excitement for purely static sites, which is fine, but I would call it hype at this point, and caution someone jumping into a new project against using a static site generator where it doesn't fit.