> These blog posts also present AOT as if its just another option you can toggle, while my impression is that it's incompatible with common Java libraries and requires swapping / maintaining a parallel compiler in the build toolchain, configuring separate rules to build it AOT, etc.

No, the blog post doesn't, and I quote: "Java AOT comes at a price.

Huge compilation times (may slow-down your CI/CD pipeline).

Very limited reflection API, limiting the usage of several frameworks or requiring of extra, complex, configuration: JPA, Spring... (This aspect will be treated in a future blog post)."