One reason I have some hope for this approach is that we start by removing complexity by going to a static web site first.

We remove WordPress, database, configuration, templates - a lot of cruft.

Then we can add it back as needed for keeping edits and publishing simple. It might turn out we hardly need anything from 11ty, thanks to AI making editing more automatic.

I think (the collective) we, are (mostly by accident) building systems that are at least one dimension or level of higher abstraction than before AI.

Unfortunately with AI, higher abstraction doesn't automatically mean less complexity, or better managed complexity.

I think 95% of systems being built now with Al and on top of - or including Al - will turn out to be highly complected mountains of madness.