I recently gave a friend the same feedback. As a non-technical user, he wanted to set up Wordpress site to serve a 4-page site. My recommendation was to use Lovable.dev to create a single html file, then create and modify other pages via Chatgpt/Gemini. No need for a CMS and can be free.
Nearly every Squarespace, Wix, etc site can and should be a static site. And instead of decomposing your concept for a site into some CMS abstractions, you can leave it light and only do those abstractions over time. But there's also lots of repetitive tasks over time...
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