I agree completely with this thought. So many people jump right to a wordpress because it can be "easy" (and as an EE, even figuring out the details of Hugo was

I agree completely with this thought. So many people jump right to a wordpress because it can be "easy" (and as an EE, even figuring out the details of Hugo was pretty confusing for what basically amounts to an evening hobby). When I first started putting together my website [0] I considered the tradeoff between static and "dynamic", but constrained myself to the former because I didn't want to pay extra for hosting costs. The Fastmail file/website hosting has been absolutely incredible for this purpose. All-in-all, doing a static site has allowed me to learn so much more about html and other basic web technology than I think I would have ever gotten from a Wordpress or similar site. The biggest downside thus far is that I wanted to start a sort of Wiki-style knowledge base for users to contribute in my particular niche, but of course the static aspect precludes any user editing. I use that area of my site as my own knowledge-base still, putting info there that I reference all the time at my day job. For fun the other night, I got sucked down the rabbit hole of adding Disqus comments too. I don't expect anyone to ever use them, but instead was just learning about how to do it. [0] The site is at https://ShieldDigitalDesign.com https://ShieldDigitalDesign.com if anyone is curious to see what a dumb EE can do with a Hugo-generated site hosted with Fastmail.