The year is 2026, somehow peoples basic web apps are not able to keep up with scrapers. Scrapers are not new. My side load is like .01 even with 10x the traffic of last year. It's called "serving static content", "caching" and many other things that are not new concepts.
Then you've got good old cloudflare which is free to use
Are you volunteering to setup and host that extra complexity for the Gentoo project?
A bugtracker is inherently dynamic.
1. You shouldn't need to be a professional sysadmin to be able to deploy a basic semi-dynamic website
2. Considering the spike of complaints over the past two years and the fact that they range from small time site operators to larger orgs (Linux Kernel, GNOME, Duke University, etc), do you think that maybe you're missing part of the problem space?