[bjornerik]

The article in the top of this thread is interesting. I can just add that in Hugo we have tried to make it simple for the simple stuff, but also make the "harder stuff" possible. We have naming conventions for layout files to keep it DRY (to avoid having to set "layout: blog" or something in every content file (you can)) and we have some special meaning behind "index.md" and "_index.md" -- which among other things allows for a navigable and not so rigid content tree. We even have plans to, in near future, to extend that tree into the content files themselves (ToC, paragraphs, sections). We may have different trade-offs than the article writer: With many sections and thousands of files in a deeply nested content tree, Hugo's layout system its speed may make more sense. Or not. So we do try, but it is hard to make everyone happy. I'm bep on GitHub.