> and static sites are cheaper to run (especially in this era of badly coded scrapers flooding the internet)

Is that really such a problem for the average Joe? I'm running multiple blogs via a Rust CMS [1] on the cheapest Hetzner server, and have had no problems with the scrapers or load or anything. Have also gotten to the HN front page without issues talking about that you shouldn't put a site behind Cloudflare since most don't need it [2]. Now of course, for businesses or something who depend on the service to be online, it's different. But I'm talking about regular Joe's blog here.

[1]: https://github.com/rikhuijzer/fx

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45965060