Seriously, this is audiophile content for web nerds. No one cares what gold-plated setup you listen to Phish albums on; divert all that energy you're spending on software gardening into improving the content of your website.
One could say I could have spent all that time on writing vanilla HTML, CSS and JS and I would have had the same result in the same amount of time. I agree, if time would be all that mattered.
But for some people (like me), feeling productive, seeing how easy it is to test my ideas and how code seems to flow from my fingertips at the speed of thought, is what decides if I’ll ever finish and publish something, or if I’ll lose my patience and fallback to comfort zones.
Having to write the same boilerplate code over and over again, constant context switching between files, jumping back into a project after a few days and not knowing where everything was in those thousand-lines files.. these are all detractors that will eventually make me say ”f••k this! at least my day job brings money”.
I guess we all bring our own background to the topic. In my case, noodling on a static site generator is a classic procrastination tarpit, something I find myself doing when writing has hit a rough patch, an easy offramp from something more worthwhile.
For you it sounds like it serves a very different, and more positive purpose. So I'm kind of torn; I don't want to be in the position of saying "you are enjoying yourself wrong", but I also think this forum is already heavy with discussions of toolchains. Gearheads have every right to have long conversations about the elaborate constructions that make them happy, but on any forum they are going to find themselves in tension with people who just want the gear to do stuff.
