[CharlieDigital]

Astro SSG and Next SSG have vastly different outputs. Astro's image component output is a prime example compared to Next with Astro being much, much cleaner. Astro's output in general is much cleaner, more streamlined, and less JavaScript heavy.

With the island architecture, it's not that you would switch between different architectures, but that you can choose which component framework you want to use on top of the same templating framework. Of course, you can mix and match, but that's not really the point.

[leerob]

If you haven't checked out Next.js in awhile, the next/image output changed recently. It's just an img tag now, basically setting srcSet automatically on easy mode, plus the automatic optimization of images. Most of the props or modifications you can use are native <img> features. It's similar to Astro (which is great!).