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I must sound like an old fossil but I just use windows notepad to build any basic sites that don't need like a shopping cart or anything complex.
A generator can help if you have a bunch of data that you need to convert to some html structure. I know what you are saying though, as little complexity as we can get away with, innit :)
The advantage of static site generators is you have your template and it's filled by the data for each page. It's generally very simple and intuitive.
The problem with doing it your way is if you need to change a common element you have to edit every page. Instead of just changing the template.
Markdown to html just works so well as all your pages are structured the same.
I use PHP to generate anything repetitive. With that and CSS it's pretty easy to make site wide changes.