I moved to WordPress under a year ago.  Since then posting has become an incredible chore, if not outright impossible.  Static pages seem to be the best, although I loose comments.

Not like there are many legitimate comments anyway, the amount of spam is insane! I would install a captcha, but something tells me I would need master PHP skills to insert it into my custom pages. I think it would be easier to make a daemon on my machine to update pages when an email has come in. Then I can get spam filtering for free.

Here is a guy that lists why static pages are better: