The issue is not, as you call it, refusing to learn new things. The issue is that it's relatively hard to find solutions for your problem rather than the very b

The issue is not, as you call it, refusing to learn new things. The issue is that it's relatively hard to find solutions for your problem rather than the very biggest and most complex problem -- in other words, trying to find something to kill a housefly with and only being offered field artillery. The benefits of Cloudflare pages that you describe are certainly very real, but for a static site consisting of a couple of files that's built by a reasonably experienced person and that will receive essentially no ongoing changes, they're not needed -- so all the extra complexity of CF pages is unjustified. If I were building a reasonably high-traffic commercial site with a JS framework, a backend, user accounts, and so on, I'm sure I would be genuinely grateful for CF Pages' features, but I just need to kill a housefly and I don't want to spend time wheeling field artillery into position.