If you'll excuse me, I'm going to be looking at HTML cache add-ons for my WordPress site.
The only difference between this and adding a cache is that the cache is another piece of software in your production stack.
Vanilla SSGs are so simple I ended up writing a basic one out of a markdown and jinja parser in Python every time (for example: https://github.com/eatonphil/notes.eatonphil.com/blob/master...).
If I were not lazy I might learn one of the major ones like Hugo.
It doesn't matter what SSG you pick, they all produce the exact same kind of thing.