This opening statement is confusing due to being stated as an axiom. From my experience, the majority of IT engineers considers the opposite true: > only few p

This opening statement is confusing due to being stated as an axiom. From my experience, the majority of IT engineers considers the opposite true: > only few professional software engineers can "afford" to have the second option as their personal website In the quote "second option" refers to SSGs. But likely most of us here, and surely most engineers I interact with, would use the word "affordable" to describe why the first option (complex CMS like WordPress) is generally AVOIDED. The post quotes "professional engineers" or "professional software engineers". And points at SSGs as an "unaffordable" solution over WordPress. The basis for this blog posts are however, that setting up SSG is time consuming while WP comes with less strings. Scroll to the end of this blabber to see the strings. WordPress is not really an option for "professional software engineers". Most of us would be ashamed of having our personal websites defaced or allowing an attacked to read our databases and change entries. The "pros" own their swolutions and are careful around what that ownership entails. YOLO-approach CMS foer the personal website is simply not an option... It's due to man-hours required to secure all the underlying dependencies (PHP, database), problems related to managing multiple system services to make a personal website work (outside of caddy, nginx etc) and how compute-heavy using WP is. And how much more knowledge (and - again - time) one needs, to harden a WP website for heavy load. You know - the "hug" thing which is not a thing with SSG-generated stupid static HTML, CSS and JS files. Or, maybe I'll just quote the nonsense... According do the author WP is better than SSG because it doesn't require one to: Buy a domain Find a hosting platform Configure DNS Find an SSG (or handcraft everything yourself) Learn how to setup a deployment pipeline I haven't spent so much dopamine on decrypting few opening paragraphs of any blog posts in a good few weeks. This blog post was "unaffordable".