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Yes it is over-engineered. Heck, even WordPress is engineered. Blogs are essentially static pages with the comments as a moving part (i.e. dynamic). Most blogs can happily leave on a static web folder if bound to something like Disqus or whatever you decide to use.

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It's true. I've over-engineered my blog as well to be isomorphic, but then I realized there was zero need for client side functionality so I've rendered it all static via a simple crawler. Much easier to deploy and serve with NGINX. Comments are powered by Disqus.

Even better: host it on S3 for a few cents per month.

But then you'll get to the overengineered static site generators, with their multiple markup languages, YAML, feeds, plugins etc.

It's turtles all the way down. Well, at least until you get to the guy doing all this with a Makefile with some inline sed.

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