Give me a link to one then because I clearly missed it and could use your help.

The 1% of static site generators I've seen are written in scripting languages that require me to install an interpreter and related build tools. Then I'm stuck with their own custom template, markup, and configuration language. And I just don't really care to manage all of that. Even as a highly technical user.

I wrote one myself in the 90s in Perl (and have thankfully lost the source code). They're fun to noodle with if you have the time.

I currently run my site on Pelican (and even patched the WP importer so that it properly preserves WP formatting). It's great but terrible. I still have to keep around a virtualenv. I have to maintain templates that I'll never be able to reuse. It's still not quite good enough. It's a good thing I make my money programming in Python and am familiar with the developer tools.

I'd like something a little more hands-off and with fewer dependencies.

We do our best to make Pelican as user-friendly as we can, but of course there are areas we'd like to improve upon. Community contributions to that end are most welcome. (^_^)