> To say a static site is faster, more secure and more scalable is undeniably true, but it’s akin to removing the engine from a car and heralding it as a more economical means of transport. If the features were expendable in the first place, then the real question is why they were included at all.

There are an awful lot of pages out there which are full of utterly expendable "features".

One should indeed ask why they are there!