[samhw]

> could be generated statically a couple of times a day

Hell, let's do some partial evaluation: just bake the computed HTML into the source code and recompile that a few times a day. No need to even read from a file when you can fetch it from rodata.

As for the reason why they did it this way, I assume it's a combination of CV-driven development along with the hackernoon-reading-junior-engineer-meets-cunning-salesperson effect which others have noted.