That’s way off from what I meant, maybe I can clarify what I’m saying here. You should consider the people who deploy to systems like S3+Cloudfront when design

That’s way off from what I meant, maybe I can clarify what I’m saying here. You should consider the people who deploy to systems like S3+Cloudfront when designing your static site generator. Too many systems are just designed to be served from the filesystem and there are rough edges when you deploy to something like S3. And “design for S3+Cloudfront” does not mean the same thing as “design it so that people without S3+Cloudfront are screwed”. That’s some kind of extrapolation. The main relevant difference between e.g. S3 and a filesystem is that you can (and probably should) deploy pages to paths like /blog/hello/ rather than /blog/hello/index.html. There are other differences—it gets somewhat pervasive, unfortunately. There are hacks and workarounds but it would be nice if the SSGs were designed with cloud storage in mind as one of the core features, rather than an afterthought. (It may seem funny that I keep saying “e.g.” but that’s because I’m not talking about S3 specifically, but speaking about a broader class of storage systems.)