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What is wrong with using Wordpress? I believe now one can get Wordpress to have 'static site' capabilities these days [0]

[0] https://wp2static.com/

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There's a huge maintenance burden with WP sites and many things break if you dump them to static files.

Also, the WP plugin ecosystem is almost as "dirty" as mobile apps are - few things are really open source, there's "please give us 5 stars" popups everywhere, fishy data collection, constant uspelling to premium offerings... It's just not a good experience to work with, unless you code most things yourself (in which case you will be absolutely disgusted by most of the API).

"There's a huge maintenance burden with WP sites" I can't subscribe to this notion. WordPress can run almost unsupervised on auto update. Perhaps when you install 40 poor quality plugins things will break between updates, but with a few base plugins such as Advanced Custom Fields Pro + Custom Post Type UI you have no such problems.

Basically there is nothing wrong with WP. It is maybe too bloated for some. Too riddled with insecurities. Too far used (and therefore an interesting target).

A bit like using windows. Some prefer Mac, some *nix.

Some are put off by php. Some don't need/want a SQL DB in the background.

Personally I like Kirby CMS (I actually don't mind the licensing fee). I am more productive and more flexible in it than in any other system I ever used. For personal and client projects.

But in the end it is often a choice of preference and that is fine.

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