This article pretty much sums up why static site generators are such a pain in the ass.
If you're just starting in your static site journey after moving away from something like Wordpress, you'll probably feel like you discovered the holy grail for a while. Yes, Netlify is amazing at first, and yes, it's a pleasure to build sites without fighting a wonky old-school PHP CMS.
However, this will wear thin after you start to care about creating regular content and the nuances of SEO (as the person who wrote this article discovered). I've gotten SSG fatigue over the last couple of years and have completely switched over to building marketing sites and blogs in Webflow.
No worries about build process, no setting up SEO from scratch every time, no wiring up a wonky headless CMS and building rigid content models, no writing blog posts in VScode and then forgetting how I set up my front matter, no PITA trying to set up a new section on your site and then realizing it breaks your headless CMS wiring, Etc. etc.
I do exactly the same with Hugo. I have a barebones template that is ready to go in a minute. I don't use Netlify but rsync public folder to server directly.
If you're just starting in your static site journey after moving away from something like Wordpress, you'll probably feel like you discovered the holy grail for a while. Yes, Netlify is amazing at first, and yes, it's a pleasure to build sites without fighting a wonky old-school PHP CMS.
However, this will wear thin after you start to care about creating regular content and the nuances of SEO (as the person who wrote this article discovered). I've gotten SSG fatigue over the last couple of years and have completely switched over to building marketing sites and blogs in Webflow.
No worries about build process, no setting up SEO from scratch every time, no wiring up a wonky headless CMS and building rigid content models, no writing blog posts in VScode and then forgetting how I set up my front matter, no PITA trying to set up a new section on your site and then realizing it breaks your headless CMS wiring, Etc. etc.