It always amazes me that we have complexified our stacks so much.
I'm creating a tiny static website with eleventy (learning).
With a small bash script, deploying it either with ftp, or "ssh remote git -C /repo/path pull", takes about 2 to 3 seconds, big maximum.
Using Github Pages takes about a minute.
Imagine the millions of Github Pages websites that could be deployed in 2 seconds, instead of wasting thousands of hours of deploy-time.