A few months ago a friend who runs a small B2B SaaS asked me a question that sounds simple and isn't: "What should I use to build my marketing site?" She didn't want a backend, didn't want to pay a developer a retainer, and wanted it to load fast and look like it was made in 2026, not 2016. I gave her the honest answer — "it depends" — and then felt bad about it. So I spent the better part of a month building the same landing page (hero, three feature blocks, a pricing table, a blog index, and an about page) three separate times: once in Framer, once in Webflow, and once in Astro, the framework this very blog runs on. I deployed all three, ran them through Lighthouse, and lived with each editor long enough to know where it scratches and where it bites. This isn't a feature matrix dressed up as an article. All three of these tools can produce a perfectly good marketing site.…