I mean don’t think of it as a suggestion so much as a natural outcome of the prototype becoming the “official” version due to it being less expensive to finish and more importantly less expensive to change. I still intend on automating it someday, and always told myself I would once I confirmed exactly what I wanted to automate and how.

So far, the ability to change the formatting and add custom edits without having to do any real development or deploying anything has been higher value and lower barrier of entry so I’ve yet to find the need and I can update the site in seconds.

The only real motivation to automate is for some things like the publishing date and Bitcoin/gold/silver prices at the time, but so far I still have just been editing it manually, and sometimes neglecting to update entirely if I’m in a hurry to just add a breaking headline.

I hadn’t thought of the take away but to me that’s what it should be if I were to highlight one, let the productive outcome vs. cost dictate the level of effort, which for web may naturally fall into somewhere on a spectrum between static HTML and cloud container deployments with automated testing and builds from CI deploying a dynamic data driven platform, depending on your needs.