[hinkley]

Because one of the things that keeps people engaged in maintaining a website is being able to fiddle with it, and the cost of fiddling with the layout of a truly static site is a lot higher than intuition would suggest.

Because you have to take the odds of making a stupefying, drop-everything mistake on any one page and take it to the nth power. That’s O(c^n). That’s an order of complexity that I haven’t even bothered contemplating in so long that I had to look up the notation.