The other problem with static sites is that it's trivial for some jerkface to copy your content and repost it. The first case of that I heard about was almost 20 years ago when it happened to a friend. The social circle of the subject matter was small enough that she could name and shame to get it taken down. Today I don't know what you could do.
It happened to me about that long ago too and I was just flattered, but it also wasn't done by some crappy scammer ripping random content to stuff it full of ads and SEO it to death hoping make a quick buck off of my writing. I have no desire to stop people from copying and sharing whatever they can, but when it's being done with a profit motive it feels a lot more exploitative and dirty.
I would love to see a federated hosting solution where person A can write content and persons B and C can help host it. That gives you the upsides of someone copying your stuff without the downside of them misrepresenting it as their own work.
But yeah, SEO has so ruined the internet I expect some sort of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon solution to spring up to fix it.
