Not sure if this would fit into your use case, but in my use case, I have custom js code which runs at the build time and downloads/compresses/resizes all the r

Not sure if this would fit into your use case, but in my use case, I have custom js code which runs at the build time and downloads/compresses/resizes all the required images into node.js file system. Then, next/image serves them as it would from local static image source. The drawback is I have really long build/export times.