Words written on a crappy platform always beat words not written on a beautiful one. Don't get too hung up on the question of tools, or you'll spend all your time looking at tools and none of it writing.
> A static site generator writing blog posts with git never excited me much, I like a kickass RTE.
Ironically this is a good description of the original "static site generator", Movable Type: http://www.movabletype.com/
It has a dynamic backend (written in Perl, which some people find a turnoff, but unless you're hacking the software itself I can't imagine why) with a nice RTE available for editing, but in its default configuration all its output is simple easy-to-serve static files.
> A static site generator writing blog posts with git never excited me much, I like a kickass RTE.
Ironically this is a good description of the original "static site generator", Movable Type: http://www.movabletype.com/
It has a dynamic backend (written in Perl, which some people find a turnoff, but unless you're hacking the software itself I can't imagine why) with a nice RTE available for editing, but in its default configuration all its output is simple easy-to-serve static files.