If you are still spinning up a MySQL database, a PHP monolithic backend, and a 50MB templating engine just to render a static 500-word text file to the browser... you are doing it wrong. Modern website design has been entirely hijacked by massive content management systems, and at the top of that trash heap sits WordPress.
THE PLUGIN ECOSYSTEM
WordPress is the antithesis of Brutalism. It is a system built entirely on hiding its structural reality behind endless dashboard menus and third-party plugins. Need a contact form? Install a plugin that injects 3 stylesheets and 2 megabytes of jQuery. This isn't website design; this is a chaotic assembly of vulnerable code snippets piled on top of a creaking legacy architecture. When you build with WordPress, you are inherently compromising the raw performance that your users deserve.
SECURITY VULNERABILITIES
When your entire frontend relies on six different plugins managed by six different developers who haven't updated their repositories since 2019, your site isn't a house. It's a house of cards. WordPress vulnerabilities are discovered daily, making maintenance a never-ending nightmare.
A true engineer understands the stack they deploy. With a static site generator like the one running this blog, there is no database to hack. There is no WordPress admin panel to brute-force. There are only flat HTML files served instantly by a CDN. The shift from dynamic monoliths to static websites is the most important architectural choice you can make today. Static websites offer absolute certainty. They render at the speed of the browser, not the speed of the server's database queue.
THE ALTERNATIVE
Learn Markdown. Write a simple Node script to parse it. Output raw HTML. It takes 30 lines of code, runs in milliseconds, and scales infinitely. Reclaim the purity of website design by generating static websites and leaving WordPress exactly where it belongs: in the past.