I think there's an interesting phenomenon at play here - the swing from interpretation to compilation across the board. It's not just happening in SSGs but also

I think there's an interesting phenomenon at play here - the swing from interpretation to compilation across the board. It's not just happening in SSGs but also CSS (SASS etc), frameworks (PHP composer, NPM), languages (Go, Rust). Seems weird to be adding such layers of indirection when we are already suffering from overcomplexity and when processing is cheaper and faster.