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I agree wholeheartedly with this sentiment and have elected for the same thing on my website. The only difference is that I wrote a simple template based static site generator (https://github.com/JosephNaberhaus/naberhausj.com/tree/maste...) to keep my HTML sources in accordance with DRY.

What I don't understand is how the linked page is downloading 1 MB of resources which unpack to nearly 2 MB. This page shouldn't need more than 100 KB.




It's the image of the Wordpress source and poor Lighthouse score. It's a poorly optimised PNG and a single file at 1 Mb instead of multiple sources for multiple screen resolutions. Of course, it does go with the thrust for simplicity in the article...




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