@kev True, but Apache or Nginx and the OS are going to be there either way. It's not a matter of WordPress *or* an HTTP daemon. It's a matter of "do I want fewer or more things poking me to update them?")

...and yeah, definitely personal preference. (In fact, Pelican is just my most likely candidate. If it turns out to not line up well enough with my preference, I'll either pick something else or modernize the aforementioned homegrown one.)