If anything a plugin tutorial would be what Jekyll seems to need the most. The small example on the wiki wasn't exactly helpful to me.

I guess if what Jekyll or Octopress provides out of the box they are the best choice at the moment. At least that's probably why they are so incredibly popular.

I started writing my own solution but I realized once you get past a certain point it's actually pretty hard to design something like this. And with the amount of static site generators out there it wouldn't ever have a chance to compete no matter how good it would be.

I wish it was easy to just replace the Liquid templates completely. No template inheritance irks me the most.