Absolutely! What mental model did you arrive at?

Mine is "an SSG is just a source to HTML compiler and compositor, plus file organiser".

I reviewed a few tools (jekyll, emacs.love/weblorg, hugo), and ended up making mine in big part because I went down the rabbit hole of "well, why is this part here? why is it like this? why can't we do this other thing? wow this bit is cool, how do I make it myself?".