You can publish from any device that can load the WP web interface (or run an app built to talk to WP), instead of having to be at the one device that has the generator and the source files and everything else.
You don’t have to ever touch the command line or FTP or Git or anything technical like that. You can if you want to but nowadays it’s a one-click affair in the control panel of most hosting services. Who will also probably auto-install some cache and security plugins for you because this saves them a shit-ton of support tickets. Yes, YOU are comfortable with all this technical shit but most people are not.
WordPress has had auto-updates for years and years. You only have to manually intervene to upgrade it when they do a major version bump that may break things.
WordPress has a lot more themes available than any static site generator ever will.
WordPress has a ton of plugins to do stuff, some simple, some complex.
You don’t have to ever touch the command line or FTP or Git or anything technical like that. You can if you want to but nowadays it’s a one-click affair in the control panel of most hosting services. Who will also probably auto-install some cache and security plugins for you because this saves them a shit-ton of support tickets. Yes, YOU are comfortable with all this technical shit but most people are not.
WordPress has had auto-updates for years and years. You only have to manually intervene to upgrade it when they do a major version bump that may break things.
WordPress has a lot more themes available than any static site generator ever will.
WordPress has a ton of plugins to do stuff, some simple, some complex.