Google has put out a well articulated article on SSR/prefetch and similar new rendering techniques:
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2019/02/rendering-on-the-web
It’s a good summary.
@matthewp I noticed their list of SSR renderers are all tied to specific frameworks, so perhaps you might try suggesting they add Velocirender 
and it’s even better when someone who isn’t on the core team talks about our stuff 
Perhaps you need to have a larger user base to be include in articles like these. That might go back to the “core team” issue you mentioned. Not sure how to solve that.
I do hope to be pleasantly surprised by a Bitovi mention one day when reading a popular article like this. Seems like you’re often ahead of the curve but off of the radar.