I agree that it feels like an ad campaign, especially since the CMS was on the front page recently.
The speed improvements could have been achieved without switching from WordPress, by installing a caching plugin with a CDN option.
The speed improvements could have been achieved without switching from WordPress, by installing a caching plugin with a CDN option.
Obviously all of that can still be done with a static front-end today (and with one front-end instead of 4 different ones), but that's actually what's newsworthy and it's hardly what anyone would traditionally think of as a "static website" :)