I would have to agree with you. Now, as far as satisfying the craving... lately I've wanted to try Jekyll and serve the site from Amazon S3 + Cloudfront. Seems to me it would handle a tremendous amount of traffic and be very fast.
Now, if only I had content that a few million people wanted to read...
I would say Cloudfront is actually overkill for a static site, I didn't really notice any decreased page load times in my testing, and having it purge the caches is another hoop you have to jump through.
There is something entirely geeky about it though, and it puts a smile on my face knowing how unnecessary the technology behind my site is.
I'd be willing to share my rakefiles for publishing this set up if anyone is interested.
A blog is about producing and publishing content. It's not thinking about scaling when there's absolutely no need for it. If one has something worthwhile to say, then spending anything more than 5 minutes to setup a blog is just a waste of time.
That's almost like having an important meeting to get to, but taking a few weeks to reinvent the wheel just so you can get there.