[Dani]

*points up*

What he said. You just write, click a button and go. Making a whole page from scratch is tedious, especially as you have to lay everything out again where wordpress does it automatically.

Plus templates allow you to change the entire appearance of your site, every single page, with the press of a button. Try doing that with a static html site.

To put it in an analogy you are familiar with.

Writing a post on these forums is probably more difficult than writing a post on wordpress. (though not by much)