This seems like an opinion that was formed based on bad experiences with some SSG that have particularly poor management processes. And that could be wildly popular SSG with the tech crowd, but popular is not the same as good.
Obviously, bad SSG are bad, but not all of them are: any SSG worth recommending to the general public in exchange for money (i.e. recommending to your customers) is one that doesn't rely on the user first making sure their "tech stack" is set up properly: it just comes with a normal installer (even if that "installer" takes advantage of the OS it's running on to grab all the dependencies it needs for itself and uses a preinstalled scripting language to run the system under the hood).
And of course typically these still have a "this project is open source, click here for our git repo!" link that normal users will NEVER use, but power users are drawn to like moths to a flame. Their experience, however, is not what you're going to sell your customers =)
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This seems like an opinion that was formed based on bad experiences with some SSG that have particularly poor management processes. And that could be wildly popular SSG with the tech crowd, but popular is not the same as good.
Obviously, bad SSG are bad, but not all of them are: any SSG worth recommending to the general public in exchange for money (i.e. recommending to your customers) is one that doesn't rely on the user first making sure their "tech stack" is set up properly: it just comes with a normal installer (even if that "installer" takes advantage of the OS it's running on to grab all the dependencies it needs for itself and uses a preinstalled scripting language to run the system under the hood).
And of course typically these still have a "this project is open source, click here for our git repo!" link that normal users will NEVER use, but power users are drawn to like moths to a flame. Their experience, however, is not what you're going to sell your customers =)