Comment by 1dom

I also don't like the idea of depending on globe-spanning mega-CDNs and don't use cloudflare for my own self hosting for the reason. I feel we're philosophically aligned here.

I feel you're missing my point which was "SSGs aren't good for sites which require interactivity because they force compromises elsewhere", a corollary to that is that for any problem an SSG promises to solve, if you have interactivity on your site, you probably already have a better solution available. E.g Jeff/bots/traffic/cloudflare.