Fairly sure it was recommended in here in the past and that's how I came to know it, can't give credit because I sadly don't remember.

[1]https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis194/spring13/lectures.html

Would be amazing if I didn't need to know a completely separate technology and/or hack together bridges/site "staticizers" in order to have a quite basic functionality (the site be 100% static when no back-end dynamic interaction is needed).

That said, there are third party plugins for WordPress that do this. Don't know about ghost, but my hopes are for first-class support for this.

Of course a private entity can disregard morality for the good of the public in their decisions (they're after profits), but what happens when that private entity becomes the town square? Or when it has monopoly over something that has become a basic utility for everyone?

At this time I'm starting to cringe at opinions defending these actions with "it's a private entity".

Of course, I don't see such an opinion being particularly welcomed here.

A chunk of the basic infrastructure of the internet is free just out of sheer luck (good willed inventors and founders).

There's no reason WhatsApp shouldn't be treated as a "dumb pipe for messaging" just like an ISP is widely regarded as necessary to be treated as such for data in general.

Where's the difference? Both are companies that want to make profits and face competition. If ISPs were a public state service, then that would be where to draw the line.

What I can chime in with though is: In my days as a web dev I started off and learned the ropes with ASP.NET (MVC was recently coming up), and after moving to django for another project I felt right at home.

It's very impressive how the django project was able to rival a behemot like Microsoft in terms of usability, reasonable defaults and developer convenience, overall design, documentation, upgradability.

The REST stuff (django rest framework) and some aspects of managing models were actually quite ahead of ASP.NET at the time for getting you up to speed with things.

Of course the tech stack around them is completely different and something you'll want to think about, but in terms of features and how things are laid out you don't need to worry, django has you covered.