We've long liked the idea of using static site generators to avoid complexity and improve performance, whenever the use case allows it. Although Eleventy has been around for a few years, it's recently caught our attention as it's matured and previous favorites such as Gatsby.js displayed some scalability problems. Eleventy is quick to learn and easy to build sites with. We also like the ease with which you can create semantic (and therefore more accessible) markup with its templating and its simple and robust support for pagination.