[iJohnDoe]

Based on my limited knowledge, you have to point your root domain (e.g. example.com) to their IP address because it’s an A record.

For the a CNAME record (e.g. wwww) it can be pointed to their CDN.

I think if you use Netlify DNS for your domain, then you can point A records to their CDN because it’s an alias at that point. Like, A record aliases on AWS Route53.

[MortyWaves]

I found all of Netlify particularly confusing and honestly a bit scary. Now I’m on CF and it couldn’t be simpler.