[lotyrin]

In my case, it just seems architected entirely backward, because of an accident of history that was LAMP and the only options at the time for having any kind of software running "on the internet" that could provide an authoring interface. The authoring software and its database and all the security surfaces and performance and cost associated with those should only be incurred when author changes are being made, not 24/7 when people are viewing content that isn't changing. The viewing experience can (and should) closely resemble a CDN of static pre-rendered documents, possibly plus thin edge-worker type logic around interactive features like comments or form submissions.