Joost de Valk, the co-founder of the Yoast SEO plugin, provoked a discussion and some controversy with a recent blog post that posited that the concept of needing a content management system (CMS) to publish a website is increasingly outdated. This insight came to him after migrating his site to a static Astro-based website with the help of AI.
Joost wrote that the reality today is that many businesses and individuals need nothing more complicated than a static website and that a CMS is overkill for those simple needs.
He affirmed that CMSs are vital…

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