Depends on a persons use case because but not all WP installs are blogs / news sites.

However if you can and are going down the static site route then I’d wager there are easier platforms to start with.

I built a static site generator that takes markdown files and “compiles” them to HTML using pandoc. The whole thing is just 1 shell script. But that use case also wouldn’t suite most other people.

So it really depends on what the team need and what the site does.