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WordPress.com’s owner launched a tracker for sites leaving WP Engine.
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Yup, if you just need a static website, Hugo, Ghost, or any of the other static site generators will do the job. If you need something fancier, there are solutions for those two, but you need to be clear about your requirements because almost nothing is a drop-in replacement for WordPress.
Is ghost static now? I thought it was just a blog cms written in Node
You can use third party tools to generate a static site from a Ghost setup, like this one.