This is tangential/possibly off-topic. I was wondering if anyone could educate me as to why this site needs to use next.js in the first place (the site of the blog, not spectrum). It's mentioned in this blog post and I followed the link. The full tech stack is given here -> https://github.com/mxstbr/mxstbr.com#tech-stack

I went through the codebase, and the content itself is static. I'm not attempting to bash the decision to use next at all. I'm only looking to grow my understanding of the usage of next since I see it being mentioned a lot.

The question I have is, why use next/react for what appears to be a static site. Or, why not use static html + markdown?

Again, not bashing. Just looking for reasons that I might have missed due to my lack of understanding/context.