[modernerd]

Static site generators require a lot of sacrifices:

What about non-technical users? Multi-author blogs? Idiot-proof extensibility? Updates from phones and tablets? Huge sites with thousands of posts? Editorial and review systems? Access to thousands of cheap or free themes?

The ideal static site user is in a pretty privileged group. Most WordPress users would be better off securing WordPress and using a caching plugin that gives them the benefits of a powerful, dynamic platform while serving static files with automatic serverside compilation: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

[kmfrk]

Exactly. My own static blog is pretty much the perfect CMS that I wouldn't recommend to anyone for the life of me.

At the very least, it needs something like http://prose.io/ on top of it, and since their website keeps not working, you don't want to put all your eggs in one basket, if shit hits the fan.