Comment by WorldMaker

Speaking for myself at least, after you've been blogging for a quarter century or more there are some nice features you might want like pagination of your table-of-contents, RSS feeds (do it, everyone should do it), support for redirects so that ancient links mostly work across those decades (I've kept redirects from like three or four blogging systems now), tags pages for finding lost treasures and silly things. I been on both sides of "needing" comments tools over the decades, similar with things like WebMentions. With so much of blogging on social media WebMentions don't seem that big a deal this decade as it was in the one where every other person (in college) had at least one Blogger.com Blog or LiveJournal and a lot of discussions were cross-links between blogs.

Admittedly most of my blogging history has been something of a path towards simplification from hand-rolled PHP+MySQL, with custom "forum code" markup language, stuff before "blogging" was even an agreed upon term for it (and before Markdown was anywhere near as pervasive), to complex third-party beasts like Drupal, to homegrown Python (and reStructuredText), to very simple SSG tools (these days still Jekyll, but I don't like working in Ruby much, so I keep debating a switch to Lume but I don't think its Redirects plugin is yet compatible enough with GitHub Pages for my liking and I haven't tested its RSS support yet, both of which are personal hard requirements).