Wordpress is fantastic for SEO and hands down the easiest thing on the web to use. Its really that simple. Nigel
I really don't think you require that top support from wordpress (can't expect more, it is open source!!), as their documentation and development tutorials are absolutely good enough to overcome any issue related to development. In fact i personally believe that their documentation is the best i have ever gone through with. Aside that, Hands down to Wordpress, In comparison with Static HTML sites.
Wordpress is more better than an html site too because millions of tutorials are also available to solve our problems.
Wordpress "support"? That doesn't even make sense. Wordpress doesn't offer support. Their forums are very helpful, and if you don't get help there - you can get it here at DP. I'm not understanding that argument.