[taphangum]

I think you might be underestimating just how important speed is becoming.

Not only is it now a very important ranking factor for SEO reasons. There's also going to be a point for most websites where the complexity (I'd argue that the standard WordPress install is a lot more complex than most JamStack setups, if you're going to be digging into the code) will eventually need to be offloaded to a build process that spits out a static site, just to meet the 'acceptable' threshold.

[pier25]

Speed is important, but with services like FaunaDB and Fly.io you can have low latency distributed monoliths, so to speak.