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> I sometimes talk with developers who praise static site generators as simple, which is hogwash. I’ve seen a few projects where content editors were handed off a site based on a SSG (especially in startups where devs may dominate the conversation), and could not manage any change without a lot of training and assistance. Nothing simple about that. What those developers probably mean is that they find static site generators elegant.

It sounds like this article is using "simple" to mean "easy", and "elegant" to mean "simple".

An SSG is simple, and it's easy for people who know "the command line, the plain-files-and-scripts philosophy, git and ssh" (which is not quite the same as "developers", though there's usually a large overlap).