And doesn't get hugged to death by HN, unlike the average wordpress installation.
If you can use a static site generator then you also have the capability to spend the minimal time having a pretty good setup like nginx with cached WordPress. In which case both would likely survive HN.
but the static site does not need to be upgraded every WP security alert.
It's nice being able to outsource all of your operations needs to S3 or Surge.sh or Netlify or GitHub or really just about any CDN on the planet.