[jlg23]

> It seems to just favor speed above all else.

Yes, it seems to be all about speed. But there is one more thing that really convinced me already some 15 years ago to migrate a high profile site to static site generation: Security. The attack surface is reduced to your httpd.

PS: The site did not see too many changes and not many editors - hacking a solution in pmake and some perl for editor UI was done in half a day and everyone was happy, including the sys-admin (me, again) who only had to apply security fixes every 2 years.

PPS: Also, another important reason for some, though for me it was only an afterthought, if at all: Sending a static byte array is much, much more energy efficient than scheduling a meeting with your database for every request.