The bloat caused by even a bare minimum WP site versus html&#x2F;css is breathtaking.<p>Let&#x27;s say you need to put up a simple brochure type site. You can do alot wih just 2-3 MB text&#x2F;pics. With WP, it takes about 10MB just to get it running.<p>And let&#x27;s not forget the DB backend of WP. This alone vastly increases complexity, at least for average users.<p>Scale this up and you see how bloated WP is. You want to put up 100 brochure sites (each about 5MB). With html&#x2F;css sites, that translates to what 500MB of data? With WP, that already is 1000MB. And add requirement for a DB backend for 100 websites. The bloatness jumped by at least a factor of 2 with just the requirement for more storage. With DB requirement, the bloatness jumped imo by a factor of 5 or so.