Static sites enable a good time travel experience

I have a bit of an internal struggle here. I use a site generator too but I struggle with the question, should I? I recently wrote about why I’m writing pure html and CSS in 2025.

https://joeldare.com/why-im-writing-pure-html-and-css-in-202...

I'm not sure how using a static site generator would run counter to any of those points. You can simply generate the same website that you've written by hand.

EDIT: Well perhaps the "build steps" one, but building my Hugo site just involves me running "hugo" in my directory.

The answer is no. You can do this instead: https://community.qbix.com/t/qbix-websites-loading-quickly/2...

See “Static Sites” section. And realize that DNS caching your pages is essentially making your site “static”.