Agree that static blogging is nice, but I think this specific look needs some tweaking - for example, there's too low contrast in color between the links and the background at https://inoads.com/blog
I had to copy all the text out into a text editor to be able to read the article, not just the links. Contrast is out of vogue I guess.
I don’t understand the current fashion of making everything off-gray on off-gray. I guess it keeps designers employed.
Hypothesis: Whenever you’re building it, you spend hours looking at it, and want to reduce harshness of contrast. The reader is only going to spend 5 minutes and prefers contrast as it allows quick scanning of the text.