The whole point of static site generation is that you don't have to manage servers; that you can instead simply generate your assets and distribute them via CDN

The whole point of static site generation is that you don't have to manage servers; that you can instead simply generate your assets and distribute them via CDN. Sure you can manage servers and put a CDN in front of your servers, but then you still have to manage those servers... Anyway, you're missing the crux of my point. I was criticizing GP for implying that all NodeJS-based frameworks require a dynamic server to run respond to queries at runtime. They don't.