[BeetleB]

> Even as a programmer, I've fallen into the static site generator trap a few times.

> It's annoying to start a side project with a static site generator and then realise I want to add a small feature and suddenly I wish I'd just started with a simple Rails or PHP app.

Hard to discuss without examples. I started using Pelican over a decade ago, and am still happy with it. Every once in a while I write code to customize the behavior, but it's once every few years. It's simple and just works.

There are things I miss from dynamic sites, but I don't see how a simple folder of HTML files is in any way superior to Pelican...