I totally understand that this works for you — and like I said, I’m not discounting this as a fun thing to do.

But I guess my broader point is that if I have to create a shell script to quickly generate the boilerplate file stuff for a new post/page, I’m _basically_ already doing what early PHP was designed to do. And at a certain point (and again, I’m not talking about you specifically, just the movements around this so-called simplicity more generally), we’re reinventing stuff that was literally created 25 years ago for these very reasons.

I’m hardly innocent of this either. As much as I hate them, I fantasize about and start working on a new CMS or SSG at least twice a year, only to inevitably abandon my efforts once boredom/frustration sets in.